Topic — video clips (5 entries)
Motionland Films (v. 2): Referential Communication Task with Motionland Stimulus
How do languages express ideas of movement, and how do they package different components of moving, such as manner and path? This task supports detailed investigation of motion descriptions. The… More →
Motion Verb Stimulus (Moverb)
How do languages express ideas of movement, and how do they package different components of this domain, such as manner and path of motion? This task uses one large set… More →
Staged Events
The term “event” is a controversial concept, and the “same” activity or situation can be linguistically encoded in many different ways. The aim of this task is to explore features… More →
Cut and Break Clips
How do different languages treat a particular semantic domain? It has already been established that languages have widely varied words for talking about “cutting” and “breaking” things: for example, English… More →
Put Project: The Cross-Linguistic Encoding of Placement Events
How similar are the event concepts encoded by different languages? So far, few event domains have been investigated in any detail. The PUT project extends the systematic cross-linguistic exploration of… More →