Space and Time in Languages and Cultures

Linguistic diversity

Editors

Luna Filipović

| University of East Anglia

Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt

| University of Cambridge

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This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such as Bezhta, French, Hinuq, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish, among others. The contributions on linguistic expression of time all shed new light on pertinent questions regarding this cognitive domain, such as the hotly debated relationship between cross-linguistic differences in talking about time and universal principles of utterance interpretation, modelling temporal inference through aspectual interactions, as well as the complexity of the acquisition of tense-aspect relations in a second language.
The topic of space and time in language and culture is also represented, from a different point of view, in the sister volume Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition (HCP 37) which discusses spatial and temporal constructs in human language, cognition, and culture in order to come closer to a better understanding of the interaction between shared and individual characteristics of language and culture that shape the way people interact with each other and exchange information about the spatio-temporal constructs that underlie their cognitive, social, and linguistic foundations.

[Human Cognitive Processing, 36] 2012. xv, 492 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.36

Table of Contents

Editors and contributors	ix–xiii
Foreword: Space and time in languages, cultures, and cognition	xiii–xv
Introduction: Linguistic diversity in the spatio-temporal domain Luna Filipović and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt	1–12
I. Representing location in space and time
1. Spatial relations in Hinuq and Bezhta Diana Forker	15–34
2. Pragmatically disambiguating space: Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence Didier Maillat	35–52
3. The semantics of the perfect progressive in English Keith Allan	53–72
4. Drowning “into” the river in North Sámi: Uses of the illative Peter Svenonius	73–94
5. Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time and universal principles of utterance interpretation Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt	95–122
6. Modelling temporal reasoning: Aspectual interaction in determiners, adverbs, and dialogue Alice G.B. ter Meulen	123–134
7. Language-specific perspectives in reference to time in the discourse of Czech, English, and Hungarian speakers Norbert Vanek	135–156
8. More than “time”: The grammaticalisation of the German tense system and ‘frame of reference’ as a crucial interface between space and time Sonja Zeman	157–178
II. Space and time in language acquisition
9. L2 acquisition of tense-aspect morphology: Lexical aspect, morphological regularity, and transfer Ho Leung Chan, Jessica Finberg, Willie Costello and Yasuhiro Shirai	181–204
10. Motion events in Japanese and English: Does learning a second language change the way you view the world? Zoe Pei-sui Luk	205–232
11. ‘He walked up the pole with arms and legs’: Typology in second language acquisition Ivana Vidaković	233–262
12. Caused motion events across languages and learner types: A comparison of bilingual first and adult second language acquisition Helen Engemann, Anne-Katharina Harr and Maya Hickmann †	263–288
13. Spatial prepositions in Italian L2: Universal and language-specific principles Giovanna Marotta and Linda Meini	289–324
14. Expressing simultaneity using aspect: A comparison of oral productions in French L1, Tunisian Arabic L1, and French L2 by Tunisian learners Inès Saddour	325–346
III. Dynamic relations in space and time domains
15. Variation in motion events: Theory and applications Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano and Alberto Hijazo-Gascón	349–372
16. Italian motion constructions: Different functions of ‘particles’ Monica Mosca	373–394
17. A temporal approach to motion verbs: ‘Come’ and ‘go’ in English and East Asian languages Yumiko Nishi	395–416
18. The role of grammar in the conceptualisation of ‘progression’: A comparative analysis of Dutch and Japanese event descriptions Keiko Yoshioka and Béryl Hilberink-Schulpen	417–436
19. The locative PP motion construction in Polish: A third lexicalisation pattern? Wojciech Lewandowski	437–458
20. Path salience in motion descriptions in Jaminjung Dorothea Hoffmann	459–480
Contents of the companion volume: Language, culture, and cognition	481–482
Name index	483–486
Subject index	487–490
Language index	491–492

“This volume is a precious collection of twenty papers from the 2010 Cambridge University Conference on Space and Time across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures. [...] Time and space are many-splendored things. So is this book.”

Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp

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Cited by 3 other publications

Bosque Muñoz, Ignacio

2015. In Verb Classes and Aspect [IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 9], ► pp. 77 ff.

Johansson Falck, Marlene

2014. Temporal prepositions explained. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1:2 ► pp. 271 ff.

Johansson Falck, Marlene

2016. What trajectors reveal about TIME metaphors. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:1 ► pp. 28 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Semantics

Pragmatics

Cognition and language

Theoretical linguistics

Syntax

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2012020098 | Marc record