Principles of event segmentation in language
The case of motion events
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2980939 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jürgen Bohnemeyer (0000-0003-2411-4291, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), N J Enfield (0000-0003-3891-6973, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), James Essegbey (0000-0002-5284-4091, University of Florida), Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano (0000-0002-0241-9265, Universidad de Zaragoza), Sachiko Kita (0000-0002-0088-3654, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Sotaro Kita, Friederike Lüpke (0000-0002-1146-1617, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Felix K Ameka (0000-0001-9442-6675, Max Planck Society) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 495-532 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.2007.0116 |
| OpenAlex | W2017271336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 72 |
| References cited | 62 |
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 representations such that temporal operators necessarily have scope over all subevents. A case study on the segmentation of motion events into macro-event expressions in eighteen genetically and typologically diverse languages has produced evidence of two types of design principles that impact motion-event segmentation: language-specific lexicalization patterns and universal constraints on form-to-meaning mapping
Event structure · Lexicalization · Problem of universals · Scope (computer science · Variation (astronomy · Categorization, perception, and language · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · linguistics and terminology studies
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