Title :

Weather verbs sifted through a motion sieve

Author(s) :

Meulleman, Machteld [Auteur]
Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur les Langues et la Pensée - EA 4299 [CIRLEP]
Paykin Arroues, Katia [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Journal title :

Contrastive Linguistics

Pages :

58-67

Publisher :

Université Pédagogique d'Etat de l'Oural

Publication date :

2016

ISSN :

2412-8848

English keyword(s) :

V-framed & S-framed languages
figure-incorporation
weather verbs
atmospheric use
motion verbs
metaphorical use
semantic conflation
manner-incorporation

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

English abstract : [en]

In cognitive frameworks à la Talmy, the weather verb 'to rain' has been analyzed repeatedly as a motion verb incorporating the figure 'rain' in the verb root. In this contribution we claim that weather verbs can indeed be ...
Show more >In cognitive frameworks à la Talmy, the weather verb 'to rain' has been analyzed repeatedly as a motion verb incorporating the figure 'rain' in the verb root. In this contribution we claim that weather verbs can indeed be analyzed as motion verbs, albeit with a very heterogeneous behavior with respect to the presence of the conceptual components figure and path. If 'rain' involves one single figure and path, other weather verbs may involve no or several figures and paths. However, they consistently express manner, both in atmospheric and metaphorical contexts. Despite their conceptual structure as motion verbs, cross-linguistic differences in the availability of weather verbs in Russian and several Romance and West-Germanic languages cannot be accounted for through Talmy's classification of verb-framed and satellite-framed languages as French, Spanish, English and Dutch display a rather similar behavior compared to Russian. Nevertheless this classification is partly verified for weather verbs used metaphorically to express directional motion.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL