{"pk":27758,"title":"How to Open the \"Window of Attention\" in Serial Verb Constructions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the manner in which path events are\nspecified in Mandarin serial verb constructions (SVCs) and\nhow such representations incorporate attentional processes, as\nreflected in Talmy’s (1996, 2000) theory of Windowing of\nAttention. Here we focus on the verbs laí (come) and qù (go).\nThe results show that: (1) laí and qù in SVCs mainly\nrepresent open path, followed by fictive path and closed path\nrespectively; (2) laí or qù in Mandarin SVCs tends to adopt\nfinal path windowing. Final windowing accounts for 60.3%\nfor SVCs with laí and 65.7% for SVCs with qù. This suggests\nthat Mandarin SVC with laí or qù profiles the final part of the\nconstruction, and the information at the end is the key\ninformation. The present study offers a new account for the\ninformation distribution of SVCs and sheds light on the event\nsegmentation of SVCs.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"attention"},{"word":"Path windowing"},{"word":"SVC"},{"word":"Cognitive semantics"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fc2b32g","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Deng","name_suffix":"","institution":"Sichuan International Studies University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27758/galley/17398/download/"}]}