Talmian

comparative more Talmian · superlative most Talmian · alternative Talmyan

1. human sciencesRelating or according to the linguist Leonard Talmy.

   The Talmian typology of event types has provided us with an important tool for investigating lexicalization patterns and the arrangement of information into grammatical categories.

   2005, Michael Noonan, “Spatial Reference in Chantyal”, in Yogendra Yadava, Govinda Bhattarai, Ram Raj Lohani, Balaram Prasain, Krishna Parajuli, editors, Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics, Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal, →ISBN, page 178

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   And one could add, in Talmian terms, that the star shadows are antagonistic – in so far as they as forms – are menacing (element) principles in virtue of the discontinual whirling.

   1996, Hans-Erik Larsen, The Aesthetics of the Elements: Imaginary Morphologies in Texts and Paintings, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, →ISBN, page 93

   The Talmian notion of conflation means that the lexical content of the verb refers not only to the motion itself as the main event, but also to a second co-event often indicating manner or cause of motion.

   2018, Claudia Gerstner-Link, A Grammar of Kilmeri, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN