Constructional perspectives on motion event encoding : language typology, usage, and acquisition

Madlener-Charpentier, Karin; Liste Lamas, Elsa

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Title:	Constructional perspectives on motion event encoding : language typology, usage, and acquisition
Authors:	Madlener-Charpentier, Karin Liste Lamas, Elsa
et. al:	No
Conference details:	16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Düsseldorf, Germany, 7-11 August 2023
Issue Date:	Aug-2023
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	400: Language, linguistics
Abstract:	Theme session abstract: Cross-linguistic variation is well documented in the spatial language domain (Slobin 2004). Language-specific encoding preferences have been described in terms of lexicalization or conceptualization patterns (Talmy 1985; Treffers-Daller/Tidball 2016) and degrees of manner/path salience (Slobin 2004). For spontaneous motion, a major distinction is typically made between verb-framed (V) and satellite-framed (S) languages (Talmy 1985). In V-languages, path is expressed in the main verb, whereas manner is only expressed if highly salient; V-languages have smaller lexicons of manner-of-motion verbs (Slobin, 2004) and V-language speakers encode manner of motion less frequently than users of S-languages (Treffers-Daller/Tidball 2016). In S-languages, the root of the finite verb typically (although not necessarily) encodes manner of motion, while path is expressed in different types of satellites, e.g., directional adverbs, verbal prefixes/particles, prepositional phrases (Madlener-Charpentier/Liste Lamas 2022), with more than one satellite being possibly attached to one motion verb, resulting in complex/dense path descriptions (Zlatev et al. 2021). More detailed research has shown substantial amounts of intra-typological and language-internal variation (e.g., Hijazo-Gascón 2020; Pavlenko/Volynsky 2015; Lewandowski 2020). The distinction between V- and S-languages is thus not categorical; rather, languages can be situated, on a cline between “typical” V-languages and “typical” S-languages (Slobin 2004). The main categories of analysis can also be applied to other spatial constructions, e.g., caused motion (e.g., Harr/Hickmann 2016), fictive motion; further links can be established with neighboring constructions (e.g., resultatives, cf. Gallez 2020). In language acquisition, the language(s) speakers are growing into early in their life shape(s) these speakers’ information processing routine and their attention to particular components of event construal (Slobin, 1996). Children have been shown to respect and apply the main lexicalization patterns for localization and motion of their L1 from early on (cf. Harr/Hickmann 2016). Processing routines established and entrenched in the L1 may be difficult to restructure when learning additional languages (L2) later in life. Speakers of V-languages learning an S-framed L2 may thus struggle with adapting to higher degrees of manner salience (De Knop/Gallez 2011). This theme session discusses research in the domain of motion event encoding from a cognitive linguistic, constructionist, or usage-based perspective. It brings together research investigating (1) language-specific patterns and constructions (spontaneous, caused, and fictive motion), including gesture, (2) typological and cross-linguistic variation (with respect to information packaging/focus/locus, constructional preferences/v ariability, …), (3) the acquisition of constructional patterns in first, bilingual, and second/foreign languages, including cross-linguistic influences in language and cognition, and implications for teaching.
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Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Language Competence (ILC)
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Madlener-Charpentier, K., & Liste Lamas, E. (2023, August). Constructional perspectives on motion event encoding : language typology, usage, and acquisition. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Düsseldorf, Germany, 7-11 August 2023.

Madlener-Charpentier, K. and Liste Lamas, E. (2023) ‘Constructional perspectives on motion event encoding : language typology, usage, and acquisition’, in 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Düsseldorf, Germany, 7-11 August 2023.

K. Madlener-Charpentier and E. Liste Lamas, “Constructional perspectives on motion event encoding : language typology, usage, and acquisition,” in 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Düsseldorf, Germany, 7-11 August 2023, Aug. 2023.

MADLENER-CHARPENTIER, Karin und Elsa LISTE LAMAS, 2023. Constructional perspectives on motion event encoding : language typology, usage, and acquisition. In: 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Düsseldorf, Germany, 7-11 August 2023. Conference presentation. August 2023

Madlener-Charpentier, Karin, and Elsa Liste Lamas. 2023. “Constructional Perspectives on Motion Event Encoding : Language Typology, Usage, and Acquisition.” Conference presentation. In 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Düsseldorf, Germany, 7-11 August 2023.

Madlener-Charpentier, Karin, and Elsa Liste Lamas. “Constructional Perspectives on Motion Event Encoding : Language Typology, Usage, and Acquisition.” 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), Düsseldorf, Germany, 7-11 August 2023, 2023.