engBornemeyer, J.Enfield,N. J.Essegbey, J.Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I.Kita, S.Luepke, F.Ameka ,F. K.Principles of Event Segmentation in Language: The Case of Motion EventsART-2007-63956We examine universals and crosslinguistic variation in constraints on event segmentation. Previous typological studies have focused on segmentation into syntactic (Pawley 1987) or intonational units (Givo´n 1991). We argue that the correlation between such units and semantic/conceptual event representations is language-specific. As an alternative, we introduce the MACRO-EVENT PROPERTY (MEP): a construction has the MEP if it packages event representations such that temporal operators necessarily have scope over all subevents. A case study on the segmentation of motion events into macro-event expressions in eighteen genetically and typologically diverse languages has produced evidence of two types of design principles that impact motion-event segmentation: language-specific lexicalization patterns and universal constraints on form-to-meaning mapping.2007http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132450http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132450oai:zaguan.unizar.es:132450LANGUAGE 83, 3 (2007), 495-532All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess