Abstract - This article reports on a study that investigated the description of motion events in narrative texts written by 13-14 and 17-18 year olds learning English as a fourth language at schools where multilingualism is a key objective. The focus was placed on the learners’ references to the animate beings featured in the story and their use of verbs and satellites in order to describe the movement situations elicited from the image selected for analysis from the wordless picture story the teenagers had to retell in words. The main objective of the study was to draw a comparison between the two age or proficiency-level groups within a functional-pragmatic framework. The learners’ narrative and linguistic choices in their motion-event co...
Studies show cross-linguistic differences in motion event encoding, such that English speakers prefe...
Recent studies in language acquisition have paid much attention to linguistic diversity and have beg...
Languages encode motion in strikingly different ways. Languages such as English communicate the mann...
Theoretical claims about typologically constrained differences in how speakers habitually describe p...
The thesis explores the implications of Talmy’s typology of motion expression (Talmy 2000) for bilin...
When classifying motion events, speakers classify motion in language-specific ways. In the followi...
Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition appears to be mediated by a complex interplay of factor...
Crosslinguistic studies of expressions of motion events have found that Talmy's binary typology of v...
This paper investigates the lexical choices made by speakers of Ladin in describing the opening scen...
When speakers describe motion events using different languages, they subsequently classify those eve...
This paper concerns the acquisition of Motion events in Czech by a group of 10 Italian advanced stud...
Motions verbs differ across languages in respect of spatial relations and syntactic/semantic concept...
This article shows how deixis and motion events prove to be ideal topics in the stimulation of refle...
Recent studies in language acquisition have paid much attention to linguis-tic diversity and have be...
Narratives were gathered from Spanish- and English-speaking children and adults in response to a pic...
Studies show cross-linguistic differences in motion event encoding, such that English speakers prefe...
Recent studies in language acquisition have paid much attention to linguistic diversity and have beg...
Languages encode motion in strikingly different ways. Languages such as English communicate the mann...
Theoretical claims about typologically constrained differences in how speakers habitually describe p...
The thesis explores the implications of Talmy’s typology of motion expression (Talmy 2000) for bilin...
When classifying motion events, speakers classify motion in language-specific ways. In the followi...
Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition appears to be mediated by a complex interplay of factor...
Crosslinguistic studies of expressions of motion events have found that Talmy's binary typology of v...
This paper investigates the lexical choices made by speakers of Ladin in describing the opening scen...
When speakers describe motion events using different languages, they subsequently classify those eve...
This paper concerns the acquisition of Motion events in Czech by a group of 10 Italian advanced stud...
Motions verbs differ across languages in respect of spatial relations and syntactic/semantic concept...
This article shows how deixis and motion events prove to be ideal topics in the stimulation of refle...
Recent studies in language acquisition have paid much attention to linguis-tic diversity and have be...
Narratives were gathered from Spanish- and English-speaking children and adults in response to a pic...
Studies show cross-linguistic differences in motion event encoding, such that English speakers prefe...
Recent studies in language acquisition have paid much attention to linguistic diversity and have beg...
Languages encode motion in strikingly different ways. Languages such as English communicate the mann...