LINGUIS 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Code, State Agency For National Security, American Sign Language
Document Summary
Differences between languages can involve sounds (this is presumably irrelevant to the above questions) grammar, e. g. some languages have sex-based gender distinctions, others don"t lexicon, e. g. words for snow, color terms (berlin & kay) Some languages mark things that others don"t mark. Linguistic determinism: the structural properties of a language can strongly influence one"s view of the world. The case of verb-framed vs. satellite-framed languages (leonard talmy) : has to do with how motion events are packaged . All languages have path verbs like come and go to express direction from the starting point (a) to the end point (b). Michael came to berkeley vs. michael went to. Germanic languages generally frame path by means of a satellite, a particular like in, out, up, down etc. Romance languages generally frame path by means of a verb, e. g. french entrer, sortir, monter, descendre. Verb-framed languages: romance, semitic, turkic, basque, japanese, american sign language. Satellite-framed languages: germanic, slavic, finno-ugric, sino-tibetan (e. g. mandarin)
