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

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Children who grow up as second- or third-generation immigrants typically acquire and speak the minority language at home and the majority language at school. Re

The encoding of motion event components is a central element in determining the nature of linguistic and conceptual representations underlying motion event cons