Space in Languages: Linguistic Systems and Cognitive CategoriesMaya Hickmann, Stéphane Robert John Benjamins Publishing, 16 mai 2006 - 362 pages Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature of this collection is to bring together theoretical and empirical contributions from these varied scientific traditions, with the collective aim of addressing fundamental questions at the forefront of the current literature: the nature of space in language, the linguistic relativity of space, the relation between spatial language and cognition. Linguistic analyses highlight the multidimensional and heterogeneous nature of space, while also showing the existence of a set of types, parameters, and principles organizing the considerable diversity of linguistic systems and accounting for mechanisms of diachronic change. Findings concerning spatial perception and cognition suggest the existence of two distinct systems governing linguistic and non-linguistic representations, that only partially overlap in some pathologies, but they also show the strong impact of language-specific factors on the course of language acquisition and cognitive development. |
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What makes manner of motion salient? | 59 |
The semantic structure of motion verbs in French | 83 |
From personal deixis to spatial deixis | 103 |
Motion events in Chinese | 121 |
The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language1 | 207 |
Iconicity and space in French Sign Language | 239 |
III Space language and cognition | 257 |
On the very idea of a frame of reference1 | 259 |
The relativity of motion in first language acquisition | 281 |
Spatial language and spatial representation | 309 |
Deficits in the spatial discourse of Alzheimer patients | 335 |
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II The nature and uses of space in language and discourse | 137 |
Are there spatial prepositions? | 139 |
Deictic space in Wolof | 155 |
The semantics of the motion verbs | 175 |
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adpositions adults affixes American Sign Language Basic Locative Constructions Cadiot Cambridge CIST classifier clause closed-class cognitive Cognitive Linguistics concept configuration conflation context defined definite deictic deixis demonstrative descriptions dimensions direction discourse distinction dynamic elements encode English entity example field Figure find first five fly frame of reference French grammatical grammaticalization iconicity Ideophones indefinite Iohn Benjamins Levinson lexical linguistic locative predicates main verb manner and path manner of motion manner verbs Mayan languages meaning modalities monter morpheme motion events motion verbs non-linguistic noun Paris perception posture verbs prefixes prepositions proform properties Reference object reflect relation relative clauses represent role satellite-framed satellite-framed languages satellites scene schemas semantic signed language situation Slobin space spatial information spatial language spatial representations speakers specific spoken language structure subsystem suffix syntactic Talmy tion types typology Tzeltal verb-framed languages verbal visual perception Williams syndrome Wolof