Jürgen Bohnemeyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 234548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jürgen Bohnemeyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jürgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bohnemeyer |
| SIGNATURE | BOHNEMEYER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2411-4291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Author Correction: Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
The extent to which languages share properties reflecting the non-linguistic constraints of the speakers who speak them is key to the debate regarding the relationship between language and cognition. A critical case is spatial communication, where it has been argued that semantic universals should exist, if anywhere. Here, using an experimental paradigm able to separate variation within a language from variation between languages, we tested the u…
Reference frames in language and cognition: Cross-population mismatches
Numerous studies have found evidence of a speech community’s referential practices in discourse being predictive of its members’ behavior in nonverbal tasks. In this article, we discuss a series of exceptions to this alignment pattern, drawing on data from eleven populations of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and Central America, and Oceania. These exceptions have not been discussed in conjunction with one another and the striking commonalit…
Argument realization and discourse status in Yucatec, a purely head-marking language
We examine the impact of givenness on argument realization in a small text corpus of Yucatec folk narratives (660 clause-like units). We find that the default devices for the extension of topic chains are bare cross-reference markers. Weightier expressionsfree pronouns, demonstrative pro-forms, clause-mate co-nominals, and left-dislocated pro-forms or nominalsare used for disambiguation among competing referents, resuming previous topic chains, a…
Organization of Space
This chapter surveys the state of the art of research on the representation of space in Mayan languages. It is organized around the classification of spatial concepts depicted in Figure 12.1 . This classification is treated here as an ‘etic grid’, a set of mutually (partially) independent properties applicable to the crosslinguistic and crosscultural exploration of the overarching conceptual domain on a trial-and-revise basis (cf. Moore et al. 20…
The macro-event property and the layered structure of the clause
We ask whether there is a “macro-event phrase,” a uniform level of syntax at which complex scenarios may be described as single events under the Macro-Event Property (MEP). The MEP is a form-meaning mapping property that constrains the compatibility of event descriptions with time-positional modifiers. An examination of English infinitival complements, Ewe serial verb constructions, and Japanese converb constructions suggests that the putative cr…
Demaximizing Grice
nn here stands for 'non-natural', Grice's way of designating the conventional meaning of the utterance. 2 Or the proposition that U employs these constructions and lexical items, if one wants all premises to be propositions
Deixis
The Contact Diffusion of Linguistic Practices: Reference Frames in Mesoamerica
We examine the extent to which practices of language use may be diffused through language contact and areally shared, using data on spatial reference frame use by speakers of eight indigenous languages from in and around the Mesoamerican linguistic area and three varieties of Spanish. Regression models show that the frequency of L 2-Spanish use by speakers of the indigenous languages predicts the use of relative reference frames in the L 1 even w…
Aspect vs. relative tense: The case reopened
Complex landscape terms in Seri
Morpholexical Transparency and the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking
Guerssel et al.'s (1985) generalizations regarding the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking (C&B, hereafter) are reanalyzed based on the principles of Morpholexical Transparency and Complete Linking. A working hypothesis according to which the C&B domain is universally exhaustively partitioned into argument structure classes of C&B verbs is proposed and tested against a corpus of data from 17 languages. Counterevidence to the hypot…
Standing divided: Dispositionals and locative predications in two Mayan languages
The Mayan languages Tzeltal and Yucatec have large form classes of “dispositional” roots which lexicalize spatial properties such as orientation, support/suspension/blockage of motion, and configurations of parts of an entity with respect to other parts. But speakers of the two languages deploy this common lexical resource quite differently. The roots are used in both languages to convey dispositional information (e.g., answering “how” questions)…
Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events
We examine universals and crosslinguistic variation in constraints on event segmentation. Previous typological studies have focused on segmentation into syntactic (Pawley 1987) or intonational units (Givón 1991). We argue that the correlation between such units and semantic/conceptual event representations is language-specific. As an alternative, we introduce the MACRO-EVENT PROPERTY (MEP): a construction has the MEP if it packages event represen…
Sebastian Löbner: Understanding Semantics
Split intransitivy, linking, and lexical representation: The case of Yukatek Maya
Split-intransitive systems of argument marking provide an excellent opportunity to study the structure of the lexical-semantic representations that underlie argument structure alternations and argument linking rules. Yukatek Maya has a typologically rare split-intransitive pattern of argument marking controlled by overt aspect-mood marking. Kramer and Wunderlich (1999) have advanced an analysis according to which the linking of thematic relations…
NSM without the Strong Lexicalization Hypothesis
I would like to begin by briefly reviewing the assumptions and hypotheses the NSM approach is based on. The goal of this exercise is to understand how these are interrelated, what hinges on every one of them, and what consequences arise from discarding an assumption or disproving a hypothesis. This process defines a number of projects which all agree up to some point and then depart. Prima facie, all of these constitute legitimate avenues of inqu…
Invisible Time Lines in the Fabric of Events: Temporal Coherence in Yucatec Narratives
This article examines how narratives are structured in a language in which event order is largely not coded. Yucatec Maya lacks both tense inflections and temporal connectives corresponding to English after and before. It is shown that the coding of events in Yucatec narratives is subject to a strict iconicity constraint within paragraph boundaries. Aspectual viewpoint shifting is used to reconcile iconicity preservation with the requirements of …
Event order in language and cognition
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Temporal reference from a radical pragmatics perspective: Why Yucatec does not need to express ’after’ and ’before’
Article Temporal reference from a radical pragmatics perspective: Why Yucatec does not need to express ’after’ and ’before’ was published on January 1, 1998 in the journal Cognitive Linguistics (volume 9, issue 3)
Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events
We examine universals and crosslinguistic variation in constraints on event segmentation. Previous typological studies have focused on segmentation into syntactic (Pawley 1987) or intonational units (Givón 1991). We argue that the correlation between such units and semantic/conceptual event representations is language-specific. As an alternative, we introduce the MACRO-EVENT PROPERTY (MEP): a construction has the MEP if it packages event represen…
Morpholexical Transparency and the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking
Guerssel et al.'s (1985) generalizations regarding the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking (C&B, hereafter) are reanalyzed based on the principles of Morpholexical Transparency and Complete Linking. A working hypothesis according to which the C&B domain is universally exhaustively partitioned into argument structure classes of C&B verbs is proposed and tested against a corpus of data from 17 languages. Counterevidence to the hypot…
Complex landscape terms in Seri
Standing divided: Dispositionals and locative predications in two Mayan languages
The Mayan languages Tzeltal and Yucatec have large form classes of “dispositional” roots which lexicalize spatial properties such as orientation, support/suspension/blockage of motion, and configurations of parts of an entity with respect to other parts. But speakers of the two languages deploy this common lexical resource quite differently. The roots are used in both languages to convey dispositional information (e.g., answering “how” questions)…
Split intransitivy, linking, and lexical representation: The case of Yukatek Maya
Split-intransitive systems of argument marking provide an excellent opportunity to study the structure of the lexical-semantic representations that underlie argument structure alternations and argument linking rules. Yukatek Maya has a typologically rare split-intransitive pattern of argument marking controlled by overt aspect-mood marking. Kramer and Wunderlich (1999) have advanced an analysis according to which the linking of thematic relations…
Invisible Time Lines in the Fabric of Events: Temporal Coherence in Yucatec Narratives
This article examines how narratives are structured in a language in which event order is largely not coded. Yucatec Maya lacks both tense inflections and temporal connectives corresponding to English after and before. It is shown that the coding of events in Yucatec narratives is subject to a strict iconicity constraint within paragraph boundaries. Aspectual viewpoint shifting is used to reconcile iconicity preservation with the requirements of …
Temporal reference from a radical pragmatics perspective: Why Yucatec does not need to express ’after’ and ’before’
Article Temporal reference from a radical pragmatics perspective: Why Yucatec does not need to express ’after’ and ’before’ was published on January 1, 1998 in the journal Cognitive Linguistics (volume 9, issue 3)
Aspect vs. relative tense: The case reopened
Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
The extent to which languages share properties reflecting the non-linguistic constraints of the speakers who speak them is key to the debate regarding the relationship between language and cognition. A critical case is spatial communication, where it has been argued that semantic universals should exist, if anywhere. Here, using an experimental paradigm able to separate variation within a language from variation between languages, we tested the u…
Temporal reference from a radical pragmatics perspective: Why Yucatec does not need to express ’after’ and ’before’
Article Temporal reference from a radical pragmatics perspective: Why Yucatec does not need to express ’after’ and ’before’ was published on January 1, 1998 in the journal Cognitive Linguistics (volume 9, issue 3)
Event order in language and cognition
Preview this article: Event order in language and cognition, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/avt.17.04boh-1.gif
NSM without the Strong Lexicalization Hypothesis
I would like to begin by briefly reviewing the assumptions and hypotheses the NSM approach is based on. The goal of this exercise is to understand how these are interrelated, what hinges on every one of them, and what consequences arise from discarding an assumption or disproving a hypothesis. This process defines a number of projects which all agree up to some point and then depart. Prima facie, all of these constitute legitimate avenues of inqu…
Invisible Time Lines in the Fabric of Events: Temporal Coherence in Yucatec Narratives
This article examines how narratives are structured in a language in which event order is largely not coded. Yucatec Maya lacks both tense inflections and temporal connectives corresponding to English after and before. It is shown that the coding of events in Yucatec narratives is subject to a strict iconicity constraint within paragraph boundaries. Aspectual viewpoint shifting is used to reconcile iconicity preservation with the requirements of …
Split intransitivy, linking, and lexical representation: The case of Yukatek Maya
Split-intransitive systems of argument marking provide an excellent opportunity to study the structure of the lexical-semantic representations that underlie argument structure alternations and argument linking rules. Yukatek Maya has a typologically rare split-intransitive pattern of argument marking controlled by overt aspect-mood marking. Kramer and Wunderlich (1999) have advanced an analysis according to which the linking of thematic relations…
Sebastian Löbner: Understanding Semantics
Morpholexical Transparency and the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking
Guerssel et al.'s (1985) generalizations regarding the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking (C&B, hereafter) are reanalyzed based on the principles of Morpholexical Transparency and Complete Linking. A working hypothesis according to which the C&B domain is universally exhaustively partitioned into argument structure classes of C&B verbs is proposed and tested against a corpus of data from 17 languages. Counterevidence to the hypot…
Standing divided: Dispositionals and locative predications in two Mayan languages
The Mayan languages Tzeltal and Yucatec have large form classes of “dispositional” roots which lexicalize spatial properties such as orientation, support/suspension/blockage of motion, and configurations of parts of an entity with respect to other parts. But speakers of the two languages deploy this common lexical resource quite differently. The roots are used in both languages to convey dispositional information (e.g., answering “how” questions)…
Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events
We examine universals and crosslinguistic variation in constraints on event segmentation. Previous typological studies have focused on segmentation into syntactic (Pawley 1987) or intonational units (Givón 1991). We argue that the correlation between such units and semantic/conceptual event representations is language-specific. As an alternative, we introduce the MACRO-EVENT PROPERTY (MEP): a construction has the MEP if it packages event represen…
Complex landscape terms in Seri
Aspect vs. relative tense: The case reopened
Deixis
The Contact Diffusion of Linguistic Practices: Reference Frames in Mesoamerica
We examine the extent to which practices of language use may be diffused through language contact and areally shared, using data on spatial reference frame use by speakers of eight indigenous languages from in and around the Mesoamerican linguistic area and three varieties of Spanish. Regression models show that the frequency of L 2-Spanish use by speakers of the indigenous languages predicts the use of relative reference frames in the L 1 even w…
Demaximizing Grice
nn here stands for 'non-natural', Grice's way of designating the conventional meaning of the utterance. 2 Or the proposition that U employs these constructions and lexical items, if one wants all premises to be propositions
Organization of Space
This chapter surveys the state of the art of research on the representation of space in Mayan languages. It is organized around the classification of spatial concepts depicted in Figure 12.1 . This classification is treated here as an ‘etic grid’, a set of mutually (partially) independent properties applicable to the crosslinguistic and crosscultural exploration of the overarching conceptual domain on a trial-and-revise basis (cf. Moore et al. 20…
The macro-event property and the layered structure of the clause
We ask whether there is a “macro-event phrase,” a uniform level of syntax at which complex scenarios may be described as single events under the Macro-Event Property (MEP). The MEP is a form-meaning mapping property that constrains the compatibility of event descriptions with time-positional modifiers. An examination of English infinitival complements, Ewe serial verb constructions, and Japanese converb constructions suggests that the putative cr…
Argument realization and discourse status in Yucatec, a purely head-marking language
We examine the impact of givenness on argument realization in a small text corpus of Yucatec folk narratives (660 clause-like units). We find that the default devices for the extension of topic chains are bare cross-reference markers. Weightier expressionsfree pronouns, demonstrative pro-forms, clause-mate co-nominals, and left-dislocated pro-forms or nominalsare used for disambiguation among competing referents, resuming previous topic chains, a…
Reference frames in language and cognition: Cross-population mismatches
Numerous studies have found evidence of a speech community’s referential practices in discourse being predictive of its members’ behavior in nonverbal tasks. In this article, we discuss a series of exceptions to this alignment pattern, drawing on data from eleven populations of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and Central America, and Oceania. These exceptions have not been discussed in conjunction with one another and the striking commonalit…
Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
The extent to which languages share properties reflecting the non-linguistic constraints of the speakers who speak them is key to the debate regarding the relationship between language and cognition. A critical case is spatial communication, where it has been argued that semantic universals should exist, if anywhere. Here, using an experimental paradigm able to separate variation within a language from variation between languages, we tested the u…
Author Correction: Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
Computer Science (15 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)