[Lingtyp] motion verbs

[Juergen Bohnemeyer]

Dear Sergey – If it’s specifically verbs you’re interested in, you may or may not find the following useful:

Bohnemeyer, J. (2010). The language-specificity of Conceptual Structure: Path, Fictive Motion, and time relations. In B. Malt & P. Wolff (Eds.), Words and the mind: How words capture human experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 111-137.

(Reprinted with minor revisions as

Bohnemeyer, J. (2013). The language-specificity of conceptual structure: Taking stock. International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics 4(1): 65-88.)

This builds and expands on earlier work by Kita (1999).

While that paper looks at path verbs (specifically, at the question how much motion information they actually lexicalize), the following works have looked at the semantics of manner verbs across languages:

Beavers, J., & A. Koontz-Garboden. (2017). Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs . Language 93: 842-876.

Brown, P. (2000). ‘He descended legs upwards’: Motion and stasis in Tzeltal child and adult narratives. In E. V. Clark (ed.), Proceedings of the 30th Child Language Research Forum. Stanford, CA: CSLI. 67–75.

Hsiao, H.-C. (2009). Motion Event Descriptions and Manner-of-Motion Verbs in Mandarin. Doctoral dissertation, University at Buffalo.

Slobin, D. I. (2006). What makes manner of motion salient? Explorations in linguistic typology, discourse, and cognition. In M. Hickmann & S. Robert (eds.), Space in languages: Linguistic systems and cognitive categories. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 59-81.

Slobin, D. I., I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, A. Kopecka, & A. Majid. (2014). Manners of human gait: A crosslinguistic event-naming study. Cognitive Linguistics 25(4): 701-741.

And lastly, a couple of post-Talmy works on motion description typology more broadly:

Beavers, J., B. Levin, & S. W. Tham. (2010).The typology of motion expressions revisited. Journal of Linguistics. 46: 331-377.

Bohnemeyer, J., N. J. Enfield, J. Essegbey, I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, S. Kita, F. Lüpke, & F. K. Ameka. Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events. Language 83(3): 495-532.

Croft, W., J. Bar∂dal, W. Hollmann, V. Sotirova, & C. Taoka. (2010). Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex events. In H. Boas (ed.), Contrastive construction grammar. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 201-235.

HTH! -- Juergen

Juergen Bohnemeyer (He/Him)
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From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Sergey Loesov <sergeloesov at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, November 21, 2022 at 4:57 AM
To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: [Lingtyp] motion verbs
Dear all,
Are you aware of a new generation of reference works on motion verbs, younger than the path-breaking studies of Leonard Talmy?
 Best wishes,
Sergey
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