Conférence de Soonja Choi à Saint-Denis le 25 mai 2009

[AROUI Jean-Louis]

L'UMR 7023 a le plaisir de vous convier, dans le cadre des séances de son 
séminaire (http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article667),

le lundi 25 mai 2009

10h00-12h00,
Université Paris VIII, 2, rue de la liberté, 93200 Saint-Denis (métro 
Saint-Denis Université, ligne 13), bâtiment D, salle D 143

à une conférence de Soonja Choi (San Diego State University)

intitulée

« Typological Differences in Syntactic Expressions of Path and Causation »

Résumé :
In this study, I examine the relationship between syntax and semantics in the 
expression of Motion events.  More specifically, I examine the syntactic 
properties of two semantic components of Motion – Path and Cause – in four 
languages, English, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.  These languages differ in 
their lexicalization patterns of Motion events (S- vs. V-framed languages).  
Analyses of elicited descriptions of Motion event scenes from adult speakers 
of these languages reveal that there are two types of Path (‘endpoint’ 
and ‘trajectory’ Paths).  These two types are realized syntactically 
differently in V-framed languages.   The data also show that languages that 
encode Manner or Cause in the main verb (S-framed languages) highlight the 
causative aspect of a Motion event much more than languages that encode Path 
in the main verb (V-framed languages).  The data also reveal that some 
variations exist among the languages of the same lexicalization type and that 
the distinction between S- and V-framed languages forms a continuum rather 
than a dichotomy.

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Jean-Louis AROUI
Université Paris 8
UFR des Sciences du Langage
2, rue de la liberté
93200 Saint-Denis
FRANCE
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique77
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