This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal moti

The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics. A vast body of typological, contrastive, and psycholingu

Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their researc

This book brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. Part

This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages — Spanish, Fr