The present study investigates cross-linguistic differences in the description of motion events using Holistic Spatial Semantics (HSS) as a theoretical framework. In this study, six short video stimuli featuring various motion situations were used to elicit narratives from 35 speakers of French and 29 speakers of Swedish. The proportions of semantic category Path linguistically expressed did not vary significantly between the groups. However, the French narratives had significantly less Manner and Direction expression. Furthermore, they included significantly more unbounded non-translocative events compared to the Swedish narratives. Partly, this was due to the tendency within the Swedish group to construe situations as bounded events that were clearly shown as unbounded in the stimuli. There was also a tendency within the French group to distribute the information about the same situation over two clauses. These findings lend further support to the relevance of distinguishing between the Path and Direction categories, as well as other key features of the HSS framework, such as the distinction between non-verbal motion situations and their linguistic construals.

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瑞典语和法语中的运动事件：整体空间语义分析

本研究使用整体空间语义（HSS）作为理论框架，研究运动事件描述中的跨语言差异。在这项研究中，使用了 6 个具有不同运动场景的短视频刺激来引出 35 名法语使用者和 29 名瑞典语使用者的叙述。语言表达的语义类别路径的比例在各组之间没有显着差异。然而，法国叙事的方式和方向表达明显较少。此外，与瑞典叙事相比，它们包含了更多的无界非易位事件。部分原因是瑞典小组内部倾向于将情况解释为有界事件，而这些事件在刺激中清楚地显示为无界事件。法国集团内部还存在一种倾向，即在两个条款中分发有关相同情况的信息。这些发现进一步支持了区分路径和方向类别的相关性，以及 HSS 框架的其他关键特征，例如非语言运动情况及其语言解释之间的区别。