Published in Linguistics
This paper describes a set of three interrelated constructions in Shua (Khoe-Kwadi, Botswana) that make reference to the manner of performance of an event, or to the condition of an entity or entities either in general or as they are involved in an event or situation. There is a subordinate version of the construction that employs reduplication of ...
Published in Linguistics
This paper extends Slobin’s (2005, Relating narrative events in translation. In Dorit D. Ravid & Hava B. Shyldkrot (eds.), Perspectives on language and language development: Essays in honor of Ruth A. Berman, 115–129. Dordrecht: Kluwer) examination of 10 satellite- and verb-framed translations of a single English text to Chinese, a language conside...
Published in Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association
According to Talmy’s typology of the lexicalization of motion events (Talmy 1985, 2000), English is a satellite-framed language while Japanese is verb-framed. This study presents some of the verb-framed properties transferred by Japanese learners into their L2 English and investigates the possibility of restructuring the L1 schema for the lexicaliz...
This chapter, after a brief presentation (section 2) of the typological characteristics relevant for a better understanding of the data, focuses on the description and analysis of the Manner converb which functions at several levels of juncture: its predicative use in deranked adverbial clauses (section 3) and completive and relative clauses (secti...
This chapter, after a brief presentation (section 2) of the typological characteristics relevant for a better understanding of the data, focuses on the description and analysis of the Manner converb which functions at several levels of juncture: its predicative use in deranked adverbial clauses (section 3) and completive and relative clauses (secti...
This chapter, after a brief presentation (section 2) of the typological characteristics relevant for a better understanding of the data, focuses on the description and analysis of the Manner converb which functions at several levels of juncture: its predicative use in deranked adverbial clauses (section 3) and completive and relative clauses (secti...
