Typological shift in lexicalizing motion events: The case of Wenzhou

@article{Lin2020TypologicalSI,
  title={Typological shift in lexicalizing motion events: The case of Wenzhou},
  author={Jingxia Lin},
  journal={Linguistic Typology},
  year={2020},
  volume={25},
  pages={1 - 38}
}
  • Jingxia Lin
  • Published 11 April 2020
  • Linguistics
  • Linguistic Typology
Abstract Typological shift in lexicalizing motion events has hitherto been observed cross-linguistically. While over time, Chinese has shown a shift from a dominantly verb-framed language in Old Chinese to a strongly satellite-framed language in Modern Standard Mandarin, this study presents the Chinese dialect Wenzhou, which has taken a step further than Standard Mandarin and other Chinese dialects in becoming a thoroughly satellite-framed language. On the one hand, Wenzhou strongly disfavors… 
View via Publisher
dr.ntu.edu.sg
1 Citations

One Citation

Does dialect matter in the expression of motion? Ways of encoding manner and path in Babao and standard Mandarin

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 28 REFERENCES

Motion events in Chinese novels: Evidence for an equipollently-framed language

The linguistic categorization of deictic direction in Chinese -- With reference to Japanese --

This paper discusses the linguistic categorization of deictic direction in Mandarin Chinese, with reference to Japanese. It focuses on the following question: to what extent should the prevalent…

Which way to move: The evolution of motion expressions in Chinese

Abstract This paper re-examines from an evolutionary perspective the typological status of Chinese, with regard to the issue of how the information of motion events is encoded (Talmy 2000; Slobin…

Encoding Motion Events in Mandarin Chinese

  • Jingxia Lin
  • Linguistics
    Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse
  • 2019
This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated with…

Talking about motion

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…

Describing motion events in Old and Modern French

TLDR
It is shown that the typological change that French has undergone has crucial consequences not only for the organization of Path information in clauses, but also for the granularity of Path and the attention given to its components.

The Typology of Motion Events: An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects

This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wu, Hakka, Min and Cantonese. The author shows that…

Semantic constraint on preposition incorporation of postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese

TLDR
This work provides a unified analysis of most types of preposition incorporation that involve the postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese, and is the first study that provides a comprehensive analysis of the scalar properties and functions of Chinese locatives PPs.

Lexical splits in the encoding of motion events from Archaic to Classical Greek

This chapter explores diachronic evidence from Ancient Greek as a source of data on the categorization of motion verbs. Over its recorded history, Ancient Greek undergoes a change in the dominant…

Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions

In this chapter, we critically examine Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions. Talmy first proposed a typological classification of motion event constructions over thirty…