https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Static spatial descriptions in five Germanic languages https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:28910 stands on the table vs. the cup is on the table). The main focus lies on a detailed description of the modalities and proportions of this additional expression of information on the spatial scene in the five languages. Distributed expression of spatial relational semantics, posture verb usage and resultative constructions are analyzed. Descriptive and inferential methods are used to show the similarities and differences across the five languages, on the level of group tendencies (means), of individual speakers, and of individual stimulus items. The analyses show considerable differences across the languages. Speakers of Standard German and Frisian are most prone to integrate additional manner information into the descriptions, whereas speakers of Icelandic, Norwegian or Swiss German only rarely integrate this kind of information into their spatial descriptions.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:26:00 AEDT ]]> Two kinds of pink: development and difference in Germanic colour semantics https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:26754 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:24:43 AEDT ]]>