Volume — 2001 (15 entries)
Locally-Anchored Narrative
As for Locally-anchored spatial gestures task, version 2, a major goal of this task is to elicit locally-anchored spatial gestures across different cultures. “Locally-anchored spatial gestures” are gestures that are… More →
Hidden colour-chips task: demonstratives, attention, and interaction
Demonstratives are typically described as encoding degrees of physical distance between the object referred to, and the speaker or addressee. For example, this in English is used to talk about… More →
Time and Space Questionnaire
This entry contains: 1. An invitation to think about to what extent the grammar of space and time share lexical and morphosyntactic resources − the suggestions here are only prompts,… 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 →
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 →
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 →
Caused Positions
What kinds of resources do languages have for describing location and position? For some languages, verbs have an important role to play in describing different kinds of situations (e.g., whether… 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 →
Demonstratives in Context
Demonstratives (e.g., words such as this and that in English) pivot on relationships between the item being talked about, and features of the speech act situation (e.g., where the speaker… More →
Toponym Questionnaire
Place-names (toponyms) are at the intersection of spatial language, culture, and cognition. This questionnaire prepares the researcher to answer three overarching questions: how to formally identify place-names in the research… More →