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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"motion situations"”.
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Serial verb construction: A cognitive typology study on Chinese
… proposed canonical definition, we further locate motion-path and cause-effect as the two prototypical usages of SVC. As for cognitive typology of Chinese, we have reviewed how cognitive typology develops into four-classifications from Croft et al. (2010) in motion situations and non-motion …
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The acquisition of motion event expressions by Uyghur-Chinese early successive bilinguals
… the implications of Talmy’s (1986; 2000a; 2000b) motion event typology and Slobin’s (1996; 2003; 2006) elaborations on it in the context of early successive bilingualism (ESB). Its main objective is to bring the study of ESB acquisition of motion expressions to bear on some of the central issues …
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Motion in Language and Experience : Actual and Non-actual motion in Swedish, French and Thai
This thesis deals with motion in language and non-linguistic experience, distinguishing between actual motion (AM) and non-actual motion (NAM). AM is the experience of continuous change in an object’s position, expressed in sentences such as 'The man runs through the forest' and 'The woman is …