Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions

Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their research results concerning motion event descriptions in the languages that they investigate. The volume features new proposals based on a broad range of data involving different kinds of motion events previously understudied, such as caused motion (e.g., kick a ball across) and even visual motion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027205663
• ISBN13: 9789027205667
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 324 Pages