Looking into visual motion expressions in Dutch, English, and
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Cappelle, Bert

doi:10.1075/hcp.69.08cap

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“…For a study on visual motion, I used a children's novel by Roald Dahl, which was chockful of events of looking, glancing, glaring, peeking, peering, and so on (Cappelle 2020). The book in question is The Witches, and in fact, in that book, the gaze of one of the witches, the Grand High Witch, is something very real and tangible, as in this sentence: (2009) previously assumed that perhaps for the expression of visual motion, French would lose its essentially verb-framed nature.…”

Section: A Corpus Study On Visual Motionmentioning

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Roll up / venez: an invitation to corpus-based research in motion typology

Cappelle

2021

Revista Diadorim

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This paper highlights some facets of motion typology, applied here to mainly English and French. These two languages are not perfect examples of satellite-framed and verb-framed languages, in Leonard Talmy's well-known typology, but they can nonetheless be shown to differ in a number of related respects: compared to English (and other Germanic languages), French (like other Romance languages) is quite constrained in its use of Manner-of-motion verbs. French also lacks true particles -Path satellites without a Ground that can be syntactically detached from the verb. Drawing on some of my previous research, I briefly discuss two simple but apparently sufficiently efficient corpus-based translation studies that reveal that these differences show up when we compare English texts originally written in English with English texts translated from French vs. English texts translated from German (or other Germanic languages). A third, more recent, study contrasts a single English novel with its French and Dutch translations, focusing on expressions of visual motion. Here, too, some of the basic encoding preferences (satelliteframed vs. verb-framed) that these languages exhibit for actual motion appear to apply, by and large, for visual motion. This paper also lists some precursors of Talmy, one of whom is famously linked with the linguistic relative hypothesis. It is suggested that French, because of its typological nature, may not urge its speakers to convey much detail (neither of Manner nor of Path) in the encoding of motion. It remains an open question, one that goes beyond the purview of corpus linguistics, whether this stylistic difference is matched with a deeper cognitive one.

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Section: A Corpus Study On Visual Motionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Roll up / venez: an invitation to corpus-based research in motion typology

Cappelle

2021

Revista Diadorim

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Linguistic representations of visual motion

Matsumoto¹,

Akita

Bordilovskaya

et al. 2022

Human Cognitive Processing

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Linguistic expressions of visual motion (e.g., look into the building) in ten languages are compared, based on a crosslinguistic production experiment. We examine how linguistic representations of visual motion are typologically akin to those of self- and caused motion events. The results suggest that speakers frequently refer to path in describing visual motion events, using the “Implicit-figure construction”, where no overt argument of V moves. Head-external path-coding languages allow path to be expressed similarly to how it is expressed in descriptions of self- and caused motion events, whereas head path-coding languages use different strategies. For visual motion, the use of path verbs and deictic verbs is avoided in most languages. Patterns of the representation of visual motion thus reveal a wider range of crosslinguistic variations in describing motion events than previously thought.

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The colexification of vision and cognition in Mandarin: controlled activity surpasses uncontrolled experience

Dai,

2024

Cognitive Linguistics

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Given the colexification of perception and cognition, Georgakopoulos et al. (2022. Universal and macro-areal patterns in the lexicon: A case-study in the perception-cognition domain. Linguistic Typology 26(2). 439–487) claim that uncontrolled experience rather than controlled activity has a direct linkage to cognition. To test whether this is a universal tendency, this study conducts a contrastive behavioral profile analysis of two basic vision verbs in Mandarin: kàn, a controlled activity verb, and jiàn, an uncontrolled experience verb. The results show that (i) both kàn and jiàn colexify visual activity and cognitive senses; (ii) kàn is able to express a wider range of cognitive meanings, i.e., know, understand, and think, whereas jiàn only extends into know; and (iii) visual and cognitive meanings have more proximal relationships in the colexification pattern of kàn than that of jiàn. The study confirms the universality of the colexification between vision and cognition while providing counterexamples to the above-mentioned large data-based findings. Accordingly, a dichotomy of controlled activity versus uncontrolled experience is proposed for the colexification of vision and cognition in cognitive typology.

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Looking into visual motion expressions in Dutch, English, and French

Cited by 4 publications

References 48 publications

Roll up / venez: an invitation to corpus-based research in motion typology

Roll up / venez: an invitation to corpus-based research in motion typology

Linguistic representations of visual motion

The colexification of vision and cognition in Mandarin: controlled activity surpasses uncontrolled experience

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