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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

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Title: Spatial and Temporal Boundedness in English Motion Events
Paper URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=CONTENTS&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S0378216604002279&_version=1&md5=a0784afe72cf03b5f832d506e82285d2
Author: Bert Cappelle
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Homepage: http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/bert-cappelle
Institution: Vrije University Brussels
Author: Renaat Declerck
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Homepage: http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/cv/u0004111e.htm
Institution: Université Catholique de Louvain
Linguistic Field: Cognitive Science
Subject Language: English
Abstract: This study examines how reference to spatial boundaries can make speakers of English represent or understand a motion event as temporally bounded. Spatial boundaries can be implied by (a) the path expressed by a directional item, (b) the so-called "landmark" [Langacker, Ronald W., 1987. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, vol. I: Theoretical Perspectives. Stanford University Press, Stanford.] serving as 'support' for the path, and (c) the moving entity. Importantly, one and the same entity in the real world can also be conceptualized as either primarily delimited (bounded) or extended (nonbounded).

After setting the stage with an example (Section 1) and dealing with some important terminological preliminaries (Section 2), we take a closer look at the concept of boundaries (Section 3). We then set up a four-way classification of directional prepositions in English (Section 4), based on whether they refer to a path that is extended and, if so, on whether that path is specified or not for having or lacking an end-boundary.

In the subsequent Sections 5–7, we zoom in on the aspectual role played by adverbial particles, on the possible influence of the object NP of directional prepositions, and briefly on the role played by the NP referring to the moving entity.

The most important findings of this study are summarized in Section 8.

Keywords: Event structure; Motion events; Boundedness and telicity; Prepositions; Particles; Conceptualization
Type: Individual Paper
Status: In Progress
Venue: Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 37, Issue 6, June 2005, Pages 889-917
Publication Info: Received 18 March 2004; revised 10 September 2004; accepted 8 October 2004. Available online 7 December 2004.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=CONTENTS&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S0378216604002279&_version=1&md5=a0784afe72cf03b5f832d506e82285d2


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