Arriving Events in English and Spanish: A Contrastive Analysis in Terms of Frame Semantics

TitleArriving Events in English and Spanish: A Contrastive Analysis in Terms of Frame Semantics
Publication TypeTechnical Report
Year of Publication2001
AuthorsCristóbal, M.
Other Numbers1196
Abstract

This paper presents a detailed contrastive frame semantic analysis of arriving events in English and Spanish, attested through a corpus study.First, we present a formal description of the Arriving frame as a subframe of the Motion frame: arriving encodes a basic subpart of our conceptualization of motion, namely the transition from moving to arriving at a goal.Second, we carry out a contrastive analysis of the predicates participating in this frame. We discuss cross-linguistic differences through the study of implicit frame elements, conflation and incorporation patterns, profiling, and deixis.Third, we briefly introduce the question of polysemy. The spatial meaning of arriving is the core sense from which a set of sense extensions derives, pointing to a wide range of independent frames (e.g. Cognition frame, Achievement frame, etc.) The different senses can be described synchronically in terms of frame semantics, while motivation for them is to be found in the cognitive processes of Metaphor (across frames) and Fictive Motion (within frame).

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Bibliographic Notes

ICSI Technical Report TR-01-009

Abbreviated Authors

M. Cristobal

ICSI Research Group

AI

ICSI Publication Type

Technical Report