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Introduction : the description of motion events : on deixis, asymmetries and constructions / Laure Sarda and Benjamin Fagard -- What does deixis tell us about motion typology? Linguistic or cultural variations of speakers' "here" space vis-à-vis perceived physical events / Takahiro Morita -- Linguistic representations of visual motion : a crosslinguistic experimental study / Yo Matsumoto, Kimi Akita, Anna Bordilovskaya, Kiyoko Eguchi, Hiroaki Koga, Miho Mano, Ikuko Matsuse, Takahiro Morita, Naonori Nagaya, Kiyoko Takahashi, Ryosuke Takahashi and Yuko Yoshinari -- Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology / Christine Lamarre, Alice Vittrant, Anetta Kopecka, Sylvie Voisin, Noellie Bon, Benjamin Fagard, Colette Grinevald, Claire Moyse-Faurie, Annie Risler, Jin-Ke Song, Adeline Tan and Clément Voirin -- On a few instances where deictic directionals confound expectations / Philippe Bourdin -- Implicit landmarks and opposite polarities in French motion predicates / Michel Aurnague -- Source-goal asymmetry in Standard Chinese : a comparative study of spontaneous and caused motion events / Jin-Ke Song -- Source-goal asymmetry in German : a corpus study comparing intentional and non-intentional motion events / Laura Guse -- Co-event relations in Swedish motion constructions / Joel Olofsson -- The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan) / Rainer Osswald and Robert D. Van Valin -- Constraints constrained : equipollent verb constructions in Emai / Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare -- Lexical aspect and morphosyntactic cohesion between motion verbs and spatial particles in Homeric Greek / Castrenze Nigrelli.

"The idea of this book on "Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Descriptions" comes from the observation that, over the last 30 years, much attention has been devoted to the manner/path divide in relation to the distinction between Verb-Framed and Satellite-Framed languages. This mainstream focus has left aside other aspects of motion event descriptions. The chapters of this volume take an in-depth look at three less-studied aspects of motion expression. The first part of the book focusses on directional deixis, especially in relation to associated motion and visual motion. The second part explores variations in Source-Goal asymmetries. The third part investigates different types of motion event constructions, e.g., with various types of co-events. Many languages are taken into consideration throughout the 11 chapters, which gives the volume a clear typological dimension. This book is intended for students and academics interested in motion, spatial semantics, typological variation and cognitive linguistics"-- Provided by publisher.

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