题目：Motion event descriptions across languages

报告人：Prof. Matsumoto, Yo (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan)

报告时间：2021年6月23日（周三）14：00-15：30

ZOOM会议号：987 9740 8246        密码：566400

摘要：In this talk, I will present our findings from NINJAL Project on Motion Event Descriptions, which is a crosslinguistic experimental study on motion event descriptions in over 15 languages. The preliminary ideas behind the project is described, in relation to the ideas presented in Matsumoto & Kawachi (2020) and Matsumoto (2020). Important features of this project include 1) the adoption of the typology based on the contrast between head path-coding languages vs head-external path-coding languages (a contrast developed out of Talmy’s (1991) verb-framed vs satellite-framed languages) and 2) the separation of deixis (e.g., HITHER) and path (e.g., UP and INTO), which often exhibit differences in their coding positions. I will provide some data from languages such as Japanese, Newari, Quechua, and Tagalog. I will also describe our findings on Chinese, based on the works of Miyuki Kojima and Haiyan Xia.

References

Matsumoto, Yo. 2020. Neutral and specialized pathcoding: Toward a new typology of path-coding devices and languages. In BroaderPerspectives on Motion Event Descriptions, eds. Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi, 281–316. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Matsumoto, Yo, and Kawachi, Kazuhiro. 2020. Motion event descriptions inbroader perspective. In Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions, eds. Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi, 1–22. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Talmy, Leonard. 1991. Path to realization. In Proceedingsof the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 480-519.

报告人介绍：

Matsumoto, Yo (松本曜) is the Distinguished Professor in the Division of Theory & Typology at National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), as well as a key researcher in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. He received his PhD at Stanford University in 1992. His numerous monographs and papers, among which Broader perspectives on motion event descriptions and The semantic differentiation of V-te V complexes and V-V compounds in Japanese are the latest, cover a broad range of the typology of motion event descriptions, cognitive linguistics and Japanese morphosyntax. Professor Matsumoto is currently engaged in a NINJAL Project on Motion Event Descriptions(MEDAL) and Cross linguistic Study of the Parallelism of Motion and Change-of-State Descriptions (空間移動と状態変化の表現の並行性に関する統一的通言語的研究)”.