[Lingtyp] motion verbs

Tue Nov 22 23:49:01 UTC 2022

Sergey,

Here are some recent trends in the study of motion verbs:

1. Associated Motion and directionals have been a growing topic of interest
lately, especially in this recent volume:
Guillaume, Antoine & Harold Koch (eds.). 2021. *Associated Motion*. Berlin:
De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110692099

2. A series of "NAMED" workshops on Neglected Aspects of Motion Event
Description have been held to address this topic. The latest volume
published from this is:
Sarda, Laure & Benjamin Fagard (eds.). 2022. *Neglected Aspects of Motion
Events Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions*. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.72
And the latest workshop, held earlier this month in Kyoto and online, has
the program and abstracts available here to see what topics are currently
being worked on:
https://sites.google.com/view/named2022/program?authuser=0

3. Going back to Talmy's work, I think his own perspective and recent
reflection is important, where he observed that although interesting and
relevant, the popular topic of path/manner distinction is only a small
fraction of the typological features he proposed in his original work on
the topic, so there is more to explore within that broader typology than
has received significant attention in the literature since. That typology
is presented with a reflection on current research in this paper:
Talmy, Leonard. 2017. Past, present, and future of motion research. In
Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (ed.), *Motion and Space across Languages: Theory
and applications*, 1–12. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.59.01tal

Daniel

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 11:35 AM Dan I. SLOBIN <slobin at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Juergen has listed some of my papers; let me add this one:
>
> Slobin, D. I. (2017). Afterword: Typologies and language use.  In I.
> Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Ed.), *Motion and space across languages: Theory and
> applications* (pp. 419-445).  Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
> From the abstract: [...] the more we probe linguistic expressions of
> motion events, the more we uncover mixed types, indeterminate types, hybrid
> forms, and changes in progress. Numerous factors can act to limit or modify
> the expression of typological potentials [...] The encoding of Path and
> Manner is not carried out independently of a language’s
> morphosyntactic and morphophonological characteristics. Data of historical
> linguistics, language contact, and translation are beginning to reveal
> interactions of factors over time. Suggestive findings demonstrate
> diachronic transitions between language types (with examples from Latin and
> Romance languages, Slavic languages, Chinese), as well as changes in the
> manner verb lexicon over time (English, Italian).
>
> And some additional references:
> Verkerk, A. 2013. Scramble, scurry and dash: The correlation between
> motion event encoding and manner verb lexicon size in Indo-European.
> Language Dynamics and Change, 3, 169–217.
> Verkerk, A. 2015. Where do all the motion verbs come from? The speed of
> development of manner verbs and path verbs in Indo-European. Diachronica,
> 32, 69–104.
> Yiu, C. Y.-M. 2014. The typology of motion events: An empirical study of
> Chinese dialects. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
> Lamarre, C. 2007. The linguistic encoding of motion events in Chinese:
> with reference to cross-dialectal variation. In Ch. Lamarre, & T. Ohori
> (Eds.), Typological studies of the linguistic
>           expressions of motion events. Vol. 1: Perspectives from South
> and Southeast Asia (3–33). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
> Cardini, F. E. 2008. Manner of motion saliency: an inquiry into Italian.
> Cognitive Linguistics, 19, 533–570.
> Fanego, T. 2012. Motion events in English: The emergence and diachrony of
> manner salience from Old English to Late Modern English. Folia Linguistica
> Historica, 33, 29–85.
> Flecken, M., von Stutterheim, C., & Carroll, M. 2014. Grammatical aspect
> influences motion event perception: Findings from a cross-linguistic
> non-verbal recognition task. Language
>      and Cognition, 6, 45–78.
> Iacobini, C., & Masini, F. 2006. The emergence of verb–particle
> constructions in Italian: Locative and actional meanings. Morphology, 16:
> 155–188.
> Iacobini, C., & Masini, F. 2007. Verb-particle constructions and prefixed
> verbs in Italian: Typology, diachrony and semantics. In G. Booij, L.
> Ducceschi, B. Fradin, E. Guevara, A. Ralli, &
>      S. Scalise (Eds.), On-line proceedings of the fifth Mediterranean
> morphology meeting (157–184). Bologna: Università degli studi di Bologna.
>
> Thanks for all the references and discussion,
> Dan
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 8:51 AM Juergen Bohnemeyer <jb77 at buffalo.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> 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)
>> Professor, Department of Linguistics
>> University at Buffalo
>>
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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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