The expression of non-actual motion in Swedish, French and Thai
(2015) In Cognitive Linguistics 26(4). p.657-696- Abstract
- Dynamic descriptions of static spatial situations, such as the road goes through the forest have attracted a lot of attention across different semantic theories. Analyses in terms of fictive motion and subjective motion have proposed that such expressions are strongly motivated by universal cognitive and conceptual factors. I present theoretical arguments for the conflation of several different motivations in the literature. Instead of a single general motivation, three distinct experiential motivations are presented under the term non-actual motion. These experiential motivations are used to design an elicitation tool for investigating non-actual motion cross-linguistically. Elicited descriptions from speakers of Swedish, French and Thai... (More)
- Dynamic descriptions of static spatial situations, such as the road goes through the forest have attracted a lot of attention across different semantic theories. Analyses in terms of fictive motion and subjective motion have proposed that such expressions are strongly motivated by universal cognitive and conceptual factors. I present theoretical arguments for the conflation of several different motivations in the literature. Instead of a single general motivation, three distinct experiential motivations are presented under the term non-actual motion. These experiential motivations are used to design an elicitation tool for investigating non-actual motion cross-linguistically. Elicited descriptions from speakers of Swedish, French and Thai suggest that such descriptions are conventionalized in all three languages, which supports the universal character of non-actual motion across languages. However, in expressing non-actual motion, the language-specific resources for expressing actual motion are used. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/8556633
- author
- Blomberg, Johan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- non-actual motion, fictive motion, subjective motion, motion semantics, semantic typology
- in
- Cognitive Linguistics
- volume
- 26
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 657 - 696
- publisher
- Mouton de Gruyter
- external identifiers
-
- wos:000366662300004
- scopus:84946827822
- ISSN
- 1613-3641
- DOI
- 10.1515/cog-2015-0025
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- b0e4618e-5453-4f8c-bc43-bef69ef6d61e (old id 8556633)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 09:55:37
- date last changed
- 2023-08-30 13:19:06
@article{b0e4618e-5453-4f8c-bc43-bef69ef6d61e,
abstract = {{Dynamic descriptions of static spatial situations, such as the road goes through the forest have attracted a lot of attention across different semantic theories. Analyses in terms of fictive motion and subjective motion have proposed that such expressions are strongly motivated by universal cognitive and conceptual factors. I present theoretical arguments for the conflation of several different motivations in the literature. Instead of a single general motivation, three distinct experiential motivations are presented under the term non-actual motion. These experiential motivations are used to design an elicitation tool for investigating non-actual motion cross-linguistically. Elicited descriptions from speakers of Swedish, French and Thai suggest that such descriptions are conventionalized in all three languages, which supports the universal character of non-actual motion across languages. However, in expressing non-actual motion, the language-specific resources for expressing actual motion are used.}},
author = {{Blomberg, Johan}},
issn = {{1613-3641}},
keywords = {{non-actual motion; fictive motion; subjective motion; motion semantics; semantic typology}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{4}},
pages = {{657--696}},
publisher = {{Mouton de Gruyter}},
series = {{Cognitive Linguistics}},
title = {{The expression of non-actual motion in Swedish, French and Thai}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2015-0025}},
doi = {{10.1515/cog-2015-0025}},
volume = {{26}},
year = {{2015}},
}