Figure–ground indeterminacy in descriptions of spatial relations: A construction grammar account

Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 89-109

  Kita, Sotaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849013350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203826218     Document Type: Chapter

References (13)

1. Ameka, F. K. (1999). Spatial information packaging in Ewe and Likpe: A comparative per-spective.InS.Neumann (Ed.),Comparing African spaces (FAB 11)(pp. 7–34). Cologne, Germany: Rudiger Köppe.
2. Anderson, S. R. (1971). On the role of deep structure in semantic interpretation. Foundations of Language, 6, 197–219.
3. Bohnemeyer, J. (1997). Yucatec Mayan lexicalization patterns in time and space. In M. Biemans & J. v.d. Weijer (Eds.), Proceedings of the CLS opening academic year 1997–1998 (pp. 73–106). Tilburg, The Netherlands: Center for Language Studies.
4. Bohnemeyer, J.(2002).The grammar of time reference in Yukatek Maya. Munich, Germany: Lincom Europe.
5. Brown, P. (1994). The INs and ONs of Tzeltal locative expressions: The semantics of static descriptions of location. Linguistics, 32, 743–790.
6. Fillmore, C. J., Kay, P., & O’Connor, M. C. (1988). Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical constructions: The case of let alone. Language, 64, 501–538.
7. Goldberg, A. E. (1995). Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
8. Kita, S. (1999). Japanese Enter/Exit verbs without motion semantics. Studies in Language, 23, 317–340.
9. Kita, S. (2006). A grammar of space in Japanese. In D. Wilkins & S. C. Levinson (Eds.), Grammars of space (pp. 437–474). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
10. Levinson, S. C. (2002). Motion verb stimulus, version 2. In S. C. Levinson & N. Enfield (Eds.), Manual for the field season 2001 (pp. 9–12). Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
11. Pinker, S. (1989). Learnability and cognition: The acquisition of argument structure. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
12. Rappaport, M., & Levin, B. (1988). What to do with theta-roles. In W. Wilkins (Ed.), Syntax and semantics, Volume 21:Thematic relations(pp.7–36).SanDiego:Academic Press.
13. Talmy, L. (2000). Toward a cognitive semantics, Vol. 1: Concept structuring systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.