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Space in diachrony / edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi

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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
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1 online resource
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Luraghi, Silvia, 1958-, Nikitina, Tatiana, and Zanchi, Chiara
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Space in Diachrony; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Abbreviations; Space in Diachrony; An introduction; Silvia Luraghi1, Tatiana Nikitina2 & Chiara Zanchi1; The goal-over-source principle in European languages; Preliminary results from a parallel corpus study; Annemarie Verkerk; Overlaps in spatial encodings; Evidence from the Indo-European translations of the New Testament; Olga A. Thomason & Hanne M. Eckhoff; Ablative and allative marking of static locations; A historical perspective; Tatiana Nikitina; How should a "classical" Satellite-Framed Language behave?, Path encoding asymmetries in Ancient Greek and LatinClaudio Iacobini, Luisa Corona, Noemi De Pasquale, & Alfonsina Buoniconto; Differential Goal marking vs. differential Source marking in Ancient Greek; Silvia Luraghi; New evidence for Source-Goal asymmetry; Ancient Greek preverbs; Chiara Zanchi; A diachronic take on the Source-Goal asymmetry; Evidence from inner Asia Minor Greek; Thanasis Georga kopoulos & Petros Karatsareas; Asymmetries in path encoding in Sicilian; A diachronic overview; Luisa Brucale & Egle Mocciaro; Source-oriented and goal-oriented events in old and Modern French., Anetta KopeckaSource-Location ambiguity and incipient decline in the recent evolution of the English directional particle away; Diana M. Lewis; Prepositional phrase vs. bare instrumental; The trajectory of motion in Russian; Natalia Philippova; Space in Diachrony; 1. Asymmetries in the space domain; 2. Asymmetries between sources and goals; 3. Differential marking of spatial relations; 4. Overview of the book; References; The goal-over-source principle in European languages; 1. Introduction; 2. The goal-over-source principle in path encoding; 3. The current study: Data collection and coding., and 4. Results5. Why do these translations display a goal bias?; 5.1 Dependencies between path encoding measures; 5.2 Goals are added to translations to avoid ambiguity; 6. Why do some translations display a larger goal bias than others?; 6.1 Talmian typology does not explain cross-linguistic differences; 6.2 Language history does not explain cross-linguistic differences; 6.3 Geographic distance does not explain cross-linguistic differences; 6.4 Further explanations for cross-linguistic variation; 7. Conclusion: The encoding of source, trajectory and goal in Indo-European; Acknowledgments.
Summary
Space is a fundamental dimension of human life and is pervasive in human experience. Research on space has highlighted the possible asymmetrical nature of spatial relations. Differences in the encoding of goals and sources of motion are a case in point, and cross-linguistic coding tendencies show that path is less frequently flagged by a dedicated case than goal, source/origin, and (static) location (locative). Interestingly, such asymmetries may correlate with certain types of landmark, as in the case of toponyms or of animate entities. Even though these issues have been focused upon both in typological and psycholinguistic research, they remain largely open. The papers in this collection aim to show that a diachronic approach may shed light on the way in which asymmetries in the space domain come about over time, thus contributing to the clarification of synchronically puzzling facts.
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9789027265197 (pdf)
9027265194 (pdf)
9789027259530 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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