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

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

This volume offers a unique combination of interdisciplinary research and a comprehensive overview of motion and space studies from a semantic typological persp

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Does temporal language depend on spatial language? This widespread view is intuitively appealing since spatial and temporal expressions are often similar or ide