The ways in which different languages encode motion events has been the topic of intense analysis and dissection in recent years, especially with regard to Talmy’s (1991, 2000) verb/satellite-framed typology. This chapter shifts course by moving away from motion event typologies and the encoding of canonical motion events. Instead, it shows that English speakers can conceptualise space in terms...

Audiovisual devices such as satellite and conventional televisions can offer easy access to authentic programs which are considered to be a rich source of language input for SLA (Second Language Acquisition). The immediacy of various audiovisual programs ensures that language learners’ exposure is up-to-date and embedded in the real world of native speakers. In the same line, in the present pap...

Audiovisual devices such as satellite and conventional televisions can offer easy access to authentic programs which are considered to be a rich source of language input for SLA (Second Language Acquisition). The immediacy of various audiovisual programs ensures that language learners’ exposure is up-to-date and embedded in the real world of native speakers. In the same line, in the present pap...

This paper highlights some facets of motion typology, applied here to mainly English and French. These two languages are not perfect examples satellite-framed verb-framed languages, in Leonard Talmy’s well-known but they can nonetheless be shown differ a number related respects: compared (and other Germanic languages), French (like Romance languages) is quite constrained its use Manner-of-motio...

My aim in this paper is to survey what Greek and Roman grammarians had to say about the syntax and semantics of motion complexes — that is, syntagmatic units comprising a motion verb and a spatial adverbial. This topic involves a number of research areas that are much studied today, such as the linguistic representation of the structure of events, and the so-called “syntax-semantics interface.”...

The paper puts forward a theory of historical modalities that is framed in terms of possible continuations rather than possible worlds or histories. The proposal is tested as a semantical theory for a language with historical modalities, tenses, and indexicals.

Abstract Focusing on the expression of manner and path in ‘frog story’ narrations Estonian native speakers, this study shows that – a morphologically rich satellite-framed Finno-Ugric language is characterised by high salience. Furthermore, when analysing one core qualities speed we show participants were asked to narrate story as if events developed slowly, they also spoke slowly their stories...

Grice’s maxims of conversation [Grice 1975] are framed as directives to be followed by a speaker of the language. This paper argues that, when considered from the point of view of natural language generation, such a characterisation is rather misleading, and that the desired behaviour falls out quite naturally if we view language generation as a goal-oriented process. We argue this position wit...

Strategies that produce generalized responding are valuable, especially with regard to language acquisition, because relatively little training may result in large behavior changes. Conditions that result in generalized manding were analyzed in the current study. We demonstrated in reversal designs that undesirable or single-word responses were the predominant mand forms of 3 preschool children...

The English Resultative Construction (ERC) is a satellite-framed structure with no identical equivalent in Spanish. In series of studies, we analyzed and compared recognition (acceptability judgment task) comprehension (sentence three ERC subtypes the Depictive (EDC) (which has Spanish counterpart) by speaker learners as Foreign Language (EFL). Results showed that: 1) EDCs were better recognize...