Open AccessOn the Verbalization of Space and Direction Concepts
Author(s) -
Michaił L. Kotin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
gestalt theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2519-5808
pISSN - 0170-057X
DOI - 10.2478/gth-2020-0002
Subject(s) - conceptualization , transitive relation , movement (music) , linguistics , space (punctuation) , computer science , psychology , communication , mathematics , philosophy , aesthetics , combinatorics
Summary The paper deals with selected problems of the verbalization of the concepts “place”, “space” and “direction”, with a special consideration of their successive development in language and in language acquisition. The theoretical background are assumptions concerning the genesis of the concept of place and movement. Some of them claim that movement and direction precede the conceptualization of place and space. However, numerous linguistic phenomena seem to prove the opposite hypothesis, namely that the concept of place and, thus, its verbalization by means of stative verbs, local adverbs and prepositional phrases is original, whereas the concepts of movement, especially of controlled, caused movement denoted by transitive, regular verbs is derived from the concept of locum encoded by irregular verbs.