Path Under Construction: Challenges Beyond S-Framed Motion Event Construal in L2 German

Transfer of conceptualization patterns in bilinguals: The construal of motion events in Turkish and German

Distributed event-triggered path construction in wireless sensor networks

We consider the problem of guiding mobile agents to visit a subset of sensor nodes called event nodes in wireless sensor networks without location information, where the set of event nodes is not known in advance. As the set of event nodes changes over time, a path needs to be updated on-line. We propose a novel distributed algorithm to construct and update such a dynamic path to visit a set of...

Maintaining Partial Path Consistency in STNs under Event-Incremental Updates

Efficient management of temporal constraints is important for temporal planning. During plan development, many solvers employ a heuristic-driven backtracking approach, over the course of which they maintain a so-called Simple Temporal Network (STN) of events and constraints. This paper presents the Vertex-IPPC algorithm, which efficiently enforces partial path consistency when an STN is extende...

Granularity, space and motion-framed location

The ways in which different languages encode motion events has been the topic of intense analysis and dissection in recent years, especially with regard to Talmy’s (1991, 2000) verb/satellite-framed typology. This chapter shifts course by moving away from motion event typologies and the encoding of canonical motion events. Instead, it shows that English speakers can conceptualise space in terms...

Do L2 Grammars Go Beyond the L1 and L2 Input?

Under normal circumstances, acquiring a first language, compared to acquiring a second or third language, seems to come naturally and successfully. This natural process of first language acquisition (henceforth L1A) appears to be illogical. This is because what first language learners (henceforth L1ers) attain (i.e. a grammar of adult native speakers of a given language) goes beyond the positiv...