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CATEGORIES:RCEAL Tuesday Colloquia
SUMMARY:Adults' Expression of Voluntary and Caused Motion 
 Events in Chinese and in English - Henriette Hendr
 iks and Yinglin Ji\, RCEAL
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20091020T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20091020T173000
UID:TALK20590AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/20590
DESCRIPTION:The domain of space presents some interesting prop
 erties. On the one hand\, spatial understanding of
  human beings is said to be universal and to share
  the same biological heritage\; one the other hand
 \, the linguistic systems encoding spatial informa
 tion vary strikingly. This paradox raises fundamen
 tal questions\, among other things\, for the issue
  of language typology. In the typological framewor
 k inspired by cognitive linguistics (i.e. Talmy’s 
 verb-framed vs. satellite-framed languages)\, Engl
 ish is unanimously considered as a typical satelli
 te-framed language whereas the exact status of Chi
 nese is much debated (cf. Slobin’s equipollently-f
 ramed languages).  \n\nIn this context\, this talk
  examines adults’ expression of motion events in C
 hinese and English in a controlled experimental si
 tuation in which subjects are shown animated carto
 ons involving voluntary motion events on the one h
 and and caused motion events on the other. Aspects
  of motion expressions in Chinese and English are 
 compared with the aim of illustrating the specific
  status of Chinese in motion event typology. \n\nR
 esults of our voluntary motion task reveal that sp
 eakers of Chinese show clear similarities to speak
 ers of English. But verb-framed characteristics of
  Chinese are systematic and pronounced in caused m
 otion expressions\, where Chinese strikingly diffe
 rs from English in terms of both information locus
  and the overall distribution pattern of multiple 
 information components across an utterance.  \n\nO
 n the basis of these findings\, we argue that\, co
 ntrary to the traditional classification of both E
 nglish and Chinese as unequivocally satellite-fram
 ed languages\, it is better to describe Chinese as
  an "equipollent" language standing midway along a
  verb-framed/satellite-framed continuum\, in accor
 dance with Slobin’s (2004) proposal.  \n
LOCATION:GR-06/07\, English Faculty Building
CONTACT:Chris Cummins
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