尽管人类对空间的认知可能具有一定的普遍性，但人类对同一空间事件的表达却因为语言的差异而千差万别。这使得空间运动性事件成为近年来探讨语言相对论和语言与思维之间的关系的一个热门视角。纪瑛琳编著的《空间运动事件的表达(基于语言类型学和习得角度的研究)》从语言类型学和一语习得两个角度对于英汉语中成人及儿童如何表达自动及使动性运动事件进行了大规模实证性研究，旨在回答两个问题：第一，从空间语言类型学来看，汉语究竟属于什么类型的语言；第二，在儿童习得本族语的过程中，什么因素起的作用相对更大，是普遍性的认知特征还是语言独特性因素。

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

CHAPTER 1 Space in language typology and language

 acquisition

 1.1 Space across languages

 1.2 Space in language development

 1.3 The study of space in Chinese

 1.4 Synopsis

CHAPTER 2 Encoding motion events: typological and developmental

 perspectives

 2.1 Lexicalization patterns of motion events across

 languages

 2.2 Universality vs.language-specificity regarding

 space in child language

CHAPTER 3 Encoding motion events: linguistic devices and their

 acquisition

 3.1 Encoding motion events in English

 3.2 Encoding motion events in Chinese

CHAPTER 4 Methodologies in analyzing motion expressions ...

 4.1 Research questions and hypotheses

 4.2 Research design and stimuli

 4.3 Data transcription and data coding

CHAPTER 5 A comparison of English and Chinese in adults'

 production

 5.1 The voluntary motion task

 5.2 The caused motion task

 5.3 The typological status of Chinese in a bipartite

 typology

CHAPTER 6 Universal and language-specific influences in children's

 acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

 6.1 The M + P response with test items

 6.2 The Manner-only response with control items

 6.3 Concluding remarks regarding the VM task

CHAPTER 7 Universality and language-specificity in children's

 acquisition of caused motion expressions

 7.1 Predictions

 7.2 Results

 7.3 Concluding remarks regarding the

 CM task

CHAPTER 8 Conclusions

 8.1 Main findings and contributions of the

 present study

 8.2 Directions for future research

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