LAND RESOURCES: ESSENCE, TYPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATION

Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex events

In this chapter, we critically examine Talmy’s typological classification of complex events. Talmy first proposed a typological classification of motion events over thirty years ago (Talmy 1972, 1974, 1985); he later extended his typological classification to events in general, particularly, events with resulting states (Talmy 1991, 2000). Talmy’s extension of his typological classification ref...

LINGUISTICS 407 Lecture # 5 TYPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

LINGUISTICS 407 Lecture #5 TYPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION Typology is concerned with • establishing what types of systems are possible in natural language, • investigation of structural similarities among languages that are not genetically related. Languages may be classified on the basis of their type. In 1818 A. Schlegel proposed a typological classification of languages -still very influential! ...

The Genetic and Typological Classification of Modern Hebrew

Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex event constructions

Talmy’s typological classification of motion events, later generalized to manner vs. result event encoding, has been highly influential in linguistics and psychology. Recently, crosslinguistic comparison has indicated that it is in need of revision, in particular to account for symmetric eventencoding constructions such as serial verbs. We extend Talmy’s classification to include various symmet...

Land, Soil and Vegetation Resources in India

The nation’s strength, be it social, economic or political depends mostly on the available resources and their proper utilisation. But what is a resource? In simpler terms, resource is the matter or substance which satisfies human wants at a given time and space. Before any element can be designated as resource three basic pre-conditions must be satisfied. They are the knowledge, technical skil...