Novedad bibliogr áfica: Cifuentes-Férez,P. A Cross linguistic Study on the Semantics of Motion Verbs in English and Spanish

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Novedad bibliográfica:
Cifuentes-Férez, Paula. 2009.  A Crosslinguistic Study on the
Semantics of Motion Verbs in English and Spanish.  Lincom GmbH (LINCOM
Studies in Semantics 1, Loose Leaf, ISBN: 9783929075076, 305 p.,
Price: 68.00 EUR)
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Abstract

Motion is central to human experience; it is pervasive in our daily
lives and also in our communicative needs. However, it is a well
established fact that languages differ in their linguistic expression
of motion (Talmy, 1985, 1991, 2000a, 2000b). Despite the vast amount
of research on the linguistic expression of motion events, the fact
that motion verb roots might encode information apart from path and
manner is often overlooked, as are other minor lexicalisation patterns
that might occur. Furthermore, scholars, more often than not, have
neglected the study of path verbs in favour of the study of manner
verbs, as the differing expression of manner has so far been the most
interesting diverging point between satellite- and verb-framed
languages. Finally, hardly any work has been devoted to an in-depth
analysis of the semantics of motion verb lexicons in both verb- and
satellite-framed languages beyond the comparison of the motion verbs
found in novels or elicited orally in the two types of language.

The present book tries to meet such needs by addressing the semantics
of English and Spanish motion verbs. Thus, in this work, a systematic
and detailed account of the semantics of English and Spanish motion
verb lexicons from a contrastive point of view is provided. The
patterns of general conflations are explored, as well as more subtle
path notions and fine-grained manner information which can be conveyed
by motion verbs in these two languages. Comparison between English and
Spanish leads to the identification of some similarities and some
differences. These findings suggest that, despite notable
cross-linguistic divergences mainly with regard to manner of motion,
there are important tendencies in how English and Spanish, and
possibly other verb- and satellite-framed languages, lexicalise the
domain of motion in their verb roots.

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