Same Root, Different Categories: Encoding Direction in Chinese

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-92
Author(s):  
Xuhui Hu
Keyword(s):  
Special Property ◽  
Single Root ◽  
Motion Event ◽  
Phonological Form ◽  
Spatial Aspect ◽  
Parametric Studies ◽  
Matrix Verb

The complexity of the directional construction in Chinese involves the following factors: (a) it can take a single directional item as the predicate; (b) two directional items can co-occur to serve as the predicate; (c) one or two directional items can be attached to a matrix verb in a single clause; (d) the positions of the directional item can vary if more than one directional item is involved. I propose that the leading factor behind this complexity is that a single Root in Chinese can take different categories when merged in different syntactic positions. Therefore, the same directional item may in fact be the phonological form of a verb, a preposition, a part of a single preposition, or even a spatial aspectual marker in different directional constructions. This account is then placed within the context of parametric studies of motion event constructions, showing that two new dimensions can be added: the special property of Roots in a language and the existence of the spatial aspect in at least some languages.

Habituation and Tonic Immobility: Parametric Studies

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Nash ◽  
Gordon G. Gallup ◽  
Sara Garrison
Keyword(s):  
Tonic Immobility ◽  
Parametric Studies

The Minnesota inverted-tee system: Parametric studies for preliminary design

PCI Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-179
Author(s):  
Roberto Piccinin ◽  
Arturo E. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Parametric Studies

Numerical Modeling and Parametric Studies of Steam Reformers

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Ventura ◽  
J. L. T. Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Modeling ◽  
Parametric Studies ◽  
Steam Reformers

Theoretical framework

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Huber
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Motion Verbs ◽  
Motion Event ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
Manner Verbs

Chapter 2 provides an introduction to the motion encoding typology as proposed by Talmy, Slobin, and others (manner- and path-conflating languages, different types of framing and their concomitant characteristics). It argues that this typology is highly compatible with a construction grammar framework, points out the differences, and shows that particularly from the diachronic perspective taken in this study, the constructionist approach has advantages over the originally lexicalist approach of the motion typology. The chapter also provides a discussion of the different categories of motion verbs used in this study (manner verbs, path verbs, neutral motion verbs, and verbs that do not evoke a motion event on their own, but can receive a contextual motion reading).

Aspect and space

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Champollion
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Domain ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Temporal Domain ◽  
Spatial Aspect ◽  
Temporal Aspect ◽  
The Way

This chapter models the relation between temporal aspect (run for an hour vs. *run all the way to the store for an hour) and spatial aspect (meander for a mile vs. *end for a mile) previously discussed by Gawron (2009). The chapter shows that for-adverbials impose analogous conditions on the spatial domain and on the temporal domain, and that an event may satisfy stratified reference with respect to one of the domains without satisfying it with respect to the other one as well. This provides the means to extend the telic-atelic opposition to the spatial domain. The chapter argues in some detail that stratified reference is in this respect empirically superior to an alternative view of telicity based on divisive reference (Krifka 1998).

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