The expression of ‘putting’ and ‘taking’ events in Japanese: The asymmetry of 
Source and Goal revisited

Ishibashi, Miyuki

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The expression of ‘putting’ and ‘taking’ events in Japanese: The asymmetry of Source and Goal revisited

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Ishibashi, Miyuki
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, CNRS & Universite de Lyon;
Categories across Language and Cognition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Ishibashi, M. (2012). The expression of ‘putting’ and ‘taking’ events in Japanese: The asymmetry of Source and Goal revisited. In A. Kopecka, & B. Narasimhan (Eds.), Events of putting and taking: A crosslinguistic perspective (pp. 253-272). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-9B9B-6

Abstract

This study explores the expression of Source and Goal in describing placement and removal events in adult Japanese. Although placement and removal events a priori represent symmetry regarding the orientation of motion, their (c)overt expressions actually exhibit multiple asymmetries at various structural levels. The results show that the expression of the Source is less frequent than the expression of the Goal, but, if expressed, morphosyntactically more complex, suggesting that ‘taking’ events are more complex than ‘putting’ events in their construal. It is stressed that finer linguistic analysis is necessary before explaining linguistic asymmetries in terms of non-linguistic foundations of spatial language.