Motion encoding in language and space / edited by Mila Vulchanova and Emile van der Zee. - First Edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. - xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Explorations in language and space, 06, Oxford Linguistics . - 41 (NLA) . - Explorations in language and space, 06, Oxford Linguistics .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-232) and index.

This text brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. Part I considers the parameters of the field, while Part II looks at the way in which spatial scale or granularity plays a role in the encoding of motion in language.

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Motion in language.
Computational linguistics.

41 (NLA)