TY  - JOUR
N2  - Numerous crosslinguistic studies on motion events have been carried out in investigating the scope of the two-fold typology ?path versus manner? (Talmy 1985, 2000) and its possible implications. This typological contrast is too narrow as it stands, however, to account for the diversity found both within and across types. The present study is based on what can be termed a process-oriented perspective. It includes the analyses of all relevant conceptual domains notably the domain of temporality, in addition to space, and thus goes beyond previous studies. The languages studied differ typologically as follows: path is typically expressed in the verb in French and Tunisian Arabic in contrast to manner of motion in English and German, while in the temporal domain aspect is expressed grammatically in English and Tunisian Arabic but not in German and French. The study compares the representations which speakers construct when forming a reportable event as a response to video clips showing a series of naturalistic scenes in which an entity moves through space. The analysis includes the following conceptual categories: (1) the privileged event layer (manner vs. path) which drives the selection of breakpoints in the formation of event units when processing the visual input; (2) the privileged category in spatial framing (figure-based/groundbased) and (3) viewpoint aspect (phasal decomposition or not). We assume that each of these three cognitive categories is shaped specifically by language structure (both system and repertoire) and language use (frequency of constructions). The findings reveal systematic differences both across, as well as within, typologically related languages with respect to (1) the basic event type encoded, (2) the changes in quality expressed, (3) the total number of path segments encoded per situation, and (4) the number of path segments packaged into one utterance. The findings reveal what can be termed language-specific default settings along each of the conceptual dimensions and their interrelations which function as language specific attentional templates.
EP  - 1700
IS  - 6
A1  - Stutterheim, Christiane von
A1  - Gerwien, Johannes
A1  - Bouhaous, Abassia
A1  - Carroll, Mary
A1  - Lambert, Monique
KW  - event segmentation
KW  -  unit formation
KW  -  typological analysis
KW  -  motion events
KW  -  temporal aspect
CY  - Berlin [u.a.]
VL  - 58
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0212
SN  - 0024-3949 (Druck-Ausg.); 1613-396X (Online-Ausg.)
SP  - 1659
ID  - heidok32751
JF  - Linguistics
AV  - public
Y1  - 2020///
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
TI  - What makes up a reportable event in a language? Motion events as an important test domain in linguistic typology
ER  -