Titre :

Weather verbs sifted through a motion sieve

Auteur(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]

Titre de la revue :

Contrastive Linguistics

Pagination :

58-67

Éditeur :

Université Pédagogique d'Etat de l'Oural

Date de publication :

2016

ISSN :

2412-8848

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

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

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

Résumé en anglais : [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 ...
Lire la suite >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.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

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

Source :

Harvested from HAL