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Talking about motion : a crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns /
This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy's typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 91. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English, with contrasting examples from Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy's typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that affect habitual presence or absence of information in motion expressions crosslinguistically as well as "pattern clashing" in translation. This fresh look at issues regarding linguistic typology, lexical and construction meaning and spatio-temporal construals in language and experience results in a |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 182 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027291226 9027291225 1282151908 9781282151901 9786612151903 6612151900 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |