Relating Events in Narrative (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments. S. Strömqvist, L. Verhoeven, Prologue: Typological and Contextual Perspectives on Narrative Development. Part I: Typological Perspectives. E.L. Bavin, Focusing on 'Where': An Analysis of Warlpiri Frog Stories. P. Brown, Position and Motion in Tzeltal Frog Stories: The Acquisition of Narrative Style. E. Engberg-Pedersen, F.B. Trondhjem, Focus on Action in Motion Descriptions: The Case of West-Greenlandic. I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Motion Events in Basque Narratives. H. Ragnarsdóttir, S. Strömqvist, Time, Space, and Manner in Swedish and Icelandic: Narrative Construction in Two Closely Related Languages. D.P. Wilkins, The Verbalization of Motion Events in Arrernte. J. Zlatev, P. Yangklang, A Third Way to Travel: The Place of Thai in Motion-Event Typology. D. Galvan, S. Taub, The Encoding of Motion Information in American Sign Language. D.I. Slobin, The Many Ways to Search for a Frog: Linguistic Typology and the Expression of Motion Events. Part II: Contextual Perspectives. R.A. Berman, The Role of Context in Developing Narrative Abilities. M. Hickmann, Coherence, Cohesion, and Context: Some Comparative Perspectives in Narrative Development. A. Aksu-Koç, G. Tekdemir, Interplay Between Narrativity and Mindreading: A Comparison Between Turkish and English. A.C. Küntay, K. Nakamura, Linguistic Strategies Serving Evaluative Functions: A Comparison Between Japanese and Turkish Narratives. S. Strömqvist, Å. Nordqvist, Å. Wengelin, Writing the Frog Story: Developmental and Cross-Modal Perspectives. J. Kupersmitt, Form-Function Relations in Spanish Narratives: A Comparative Study of Bilingual and Monolingual Speakers. L. Verhoeven, Bilingualism and Narrative Construction. H.H. Clark, Epilogue: Variations on a Ranarian Theme. Appendices: Frog, Where Are You? Frog-Story Research as per 1994. Frog-Story Research After 1994. Typological Overview of Frog-Story Research. Format and Abbreviations for Glosses.