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Probing the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Swedish

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Anetta Kopecka
  • Bhuvana Narasimhan

Summary, in English

This paper explores the linguistic encoding of placement and removal events in Swedish. Drawing on elicited spoken data, it provides a unified approach to caused motion descriptions. The results show uniform syntactic behaviour of placement and removal descriptions and a consistent asymmetry between placement and removal in the semantic specificity of verbs. The results also reveal three further semantic patterns, pertaining to the nature of the relationship between Figure and Ground, that appear to account for how these event types are characterised, viz. whether the Ground is represented by a body part of the Agent; whether the Figure is contained within the Ground; or whether it is supported by the Ground.

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

167-182

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Events of putting and taking: A crosslinguistic perspective

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • Swedish
  • placement
  • semantic typology
  • removal

Status

Published