Looking differently at locative events
The cognitive impact of linguistic preferences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21819635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mégane Lesuisse (0000-0002-2810-371X, Université Paris 8, corresponding author), Maarten Lemmens (0000-0003-4549-5564, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 733-761 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1866-9808 • E-ISSN: 1866-9859 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/langcog.2023.59 |
| OpenAlex | W4389939100 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 41 |
While the Talmian dichotomy between satellite-framed and verb-framed languages has been amply studied for motion events, it has been less discussed for locative events, even if Talmy considers these to be included in motion events. This paper discusses such locative events, starting from the significant cross-linguistic variation among Dutch, French, and English. Dutch habitually encodes location via cardinal posture verbs (CPVs; ‘SIT’, ‘LIE’, ‘STAND’) expressing the orientation of the Figure, French prefers orientation-neutral existence verbs like être ‘be’ and English – unlike for motion events – straddles the middle with a marked preference for be but the possibility to occasionally rely on CPVs. Through the analysis of recognition performances and gazing behaviours in a non-verbal recognition task, this study confirms a (subtle) cognitive impact of different linguistic preferences on the mental representation of locative events. More specifically, they confirm the continuum suggested by Lemmens (2005, Parcours linguistiques. Domaine anglais (pp. 223–244). Publications de l’Université St Etienne.) for the domain of location with French on the one extreme and Dutch on the other with English in-between, behaving like French in some contexts but like Dutch in others
Cognition · Cognitive linguistics · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Locative case · Preference · Verb · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation · Artificial Intelligence
The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying
Rethinking linguistic relativity
The Semantics of English Prepositions
Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements
Speed of processing in the human visual system
Motion events in language and cognition
“What” and “where” in spatial language and spatial cognition
Shaping meanings for language
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
Dialectology meets Typology
Speaking in a second language but thinking in the first language
Speaking and remembering in one or two languages
Motion Event Constructions in Swedish, French and Thai
Manners of human gait
Relating Events in Narrative
Four languages from the lower end of the typology of locative predication
Spatial and temporal uses of english prepositions
Introduction
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |