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Abstract
Danish directional adverbs (DDA) (for instance op ’up’, ned ’down’, and ud ’out’) are characterized by an important special feature as satellites – they have different forms: a zero-form (ud-Ø), a form with a derivative e-suffix (ud-e), and a third form with a prepositional ad-suffix (‘ wards’). In this study it is argued that the forms can be described and explained as different ways of profiling a dynamic motion event in a basic path event frame. This analysis is supported by several, strong, linguistically coded conceptual constraints in the use of DDAs in the construction of motion events in Danish found in different corpora, especially constraints regarding the semantics of the verb. However, a great deal of variation is found in specific uses of DDAs, and the question of how to integrate this variation into the description is also briefly addressed, exploring the possibility of combining cognitive linguistics with an instructional semantics.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Construal of Spatial Meaning: Windows into Conceptual Space |
| Editors | Carita Paradis, Jean Hudson, Ulf Magnusson |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Pages | 169-193 |
| Chapter | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-19-964163-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | The first Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) - Lund, Sweden Duration: 1 Dec 2007 → 1 Dec 2007 |
Conference
| Conference | The first Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) |
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| Country/Territory | Sweden |
| City | Lund |
| Period | 01/12/2007 → 01/12/2007 |
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities
Activities
- 1 Lecture and oral contribution
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Danish directional adverbs - ways of profiling a motion event
Hovmark, H. (Lecturer)
30 Nov 2007Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution