Alberto Hijazo-Gascon

Las lenguas románicas y la tipología de los eventos de movimiento

According to Talmys semantic typology, Romance languages are classified as verb-framed. is group of languages lexicalizes Path information in the main verb, whereas Manner information, if expressed at all, is usually codified in linguistic elements outside the main verb. Based on a detailed study on oral data from motion events in three Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, and French in contrast with a Germanic language: German), this paper explores the existence of intratypological variation in the description of motion events in these languages. Results show that the three languages behave similarly with respect to the Manner component, but that there is intratypological variation as far as the Path component is concerned. Italian can be considered as a high-path salient language, since it is significantly different from Spanish and French.

Acquisition of motion events in L2 Spanish by German, French and Italian speakers

ABSTRACT This article explores the second language acquisition of motion events, with particular regard to cross-linguistic influence between first and second languages. Oral narratives in Spanish as a second language by native speakers of French, German and Italian are compared, together with narratives by native Spanish speakers. Previous analysis on the expression of motion events in these languages showed that Romance languages do not always follow the same pattern; for example, Italian tends to express the component of Path more frequently than French and Spanish. The results of the present study highlight evidence of intra-typological differences, even between languages that are genetically very close. These differences seem to lead speakers to produce cases of conceptual transfer into their second language, Spanish, even when their first language is another Romance language.

Preposiciones, partículas del movimiento y estilo retórico en ELE: un análisis desde la lingüística cognitiva

Este articulo presenta dos estudios sobre el espacio y el movimiento desde la perspectiva de la Linguistica Cognitiva y su aplicacion a ELE. El primero se centra en la polisemia de las preposiciones, especialmente por y para. Se muestra como la organizacion motivada de los usos preposicionales puede favorecer su adquisicion. El segundo explica el concepto de estilo retorico en relacion a los eventos de movimiento en italiano y espanol. Se ensena como, a pesar de ser lenguas romanicas, sus recursos linguisticos son diferentes, lo que repercute en sus estilos retoricos y en su adquisicion.