A Review on Motion Event from a Typological Perspective
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paper_title: (1) Lexicalization patterns: Semantic structure in lexical forms; and

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Languages fall typologically into three classes according to their semantic structure in lexical forms.
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paper_title: Motion events in language and cognition

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This study investigated whether different lexicalization patterns of motion events in English and Spanish predict how speakers of these languages perform in non-linguistic tasks. Using 36 motion events, we compared English and Spanish speakers' linguistic descriptions to their performance on two non-linguistic tasks: recognition memory and similarity judgments. We investigated the effect of language processing on non-linguistic performance by varying the nature of the encoding before testing for recognition and similarity. Participants encoded the events while describing them verbally or not. No effect of language was obtained in the recognition memory task after either linguistic or non-linguistic encoding and in the similarity task after non-linguistic encoding. We did find a linguistic effect in the similarity task after verbal encoding, an effect that conformed to language-specific patterns. Linguistic descriptions directed attention to certain aspects of the events later used to make a non-linguistic judgment. This suggests that linguistic and non-linguistic performance are dissociable, but language-specific regularities made available in the experimental context may mediate the speaker's performance in specific tasks.
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paper_title: (1) Lexicalization patterns: Semantic structure in lexical forms; and

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Languages fall typologically into three classes according to their semantic structure in lexical forms.
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paper_title: Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar

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This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of "Mandarin Chinese", the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.
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paper_title: Semantic Structures in English and Atsugewi

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Semantic Structures in English and Atsugewi ‘Le@nard Talmy Linguistics Department University of California at Berkeley- Winter, 1972 V
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paper_title: Properties of Main Verbs

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A set of properties is proposed as characteristic of main verbs, able to identify a particular constituent in a sentence as its main verb. These properties are in turn applied to the framing typology of Talmy (2000b), in which languages fall into two categories based on whether they characteristically express the Path component of a Motion event in the verb (verb-framed languages) or in the satellite and/or preposition (satellite-framed languages). Slobin (2004) later held that certain languages do not fall neatly into either category of this typology, either because the lexical category of the Path constituent is unclear, or because the Path and coevent constituents are both verbs or both satellites. He classed such languages together as being “equipollently framed”, exhibiting a third category of the typology. We dispute most of these claims of equipollent framing, demonstrating how these languages are actually either verb-framed or satellite-framed.
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Title: A Review on Motion Event from a Typological Perspective
Section 1: INTRODUCTION
Description 1: Provide an overview of the increasing interest in motion event research over recent decades and its significance in typologically different languages.

Section 2: TALMY'S LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY OF MOTION EVENTS
Description 2: Describe Talmy's work on the typology of motion events, including the distinctions between self-contained motion and translational motion, and the classification of languages into "verb-framed" and "satellite-framed."

Section 3: SLOBIN'S "THINKING FOR SPEAKING" HYPOTHESIS
Description 3: Explain Slobin's hypothesis on how typological differences in languages influence the way speakers conceptualize and describe motion events, including his modification of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

Section 4: THE TYPOLOGY OF MOTION EXPRESSIONS REVISITED
Description 4: Discuss recent developments and modifications to Talmy's classification, including the introduction of new types to better account for languages that do not fit neatly into the original typology.

Section 5: THE VARIOUS WAYS OF ENCODING MOTION EVENTS IN CHINESE
Description 5: Examine how Chinese encodes motion events, including the debate on whether Chinese is a satellite-framed, verb-framed, or equipollently-framed language.

Section 6: CONCLUSION
Description 6: Summarize the research covered in the paper and suggest areas for future study, particularly in metaphorical and subjective motion expressions.