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Dutch Manner of Motion Verbs: Disentangling Auxiliary Choice, Telicity and Syntactic Function
Cognitive Linguistics, 2012Abstract Dutch manner of motion verbs play a prominent role in the literature on unaccusativity. As these verbs can take both hebben ‘have’ and zijn ‘be’ as their perfective auxiliaries, they are considered to show both unergative and unaccusative behavior.
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English is less rich in manner-of-motion verbs when translated from French
Across Languages and Cultures, 2012 This paper reports on a corpus-based method used to compare translated and non-translated English texts, more specifically with respect to how extensively they use verbs expressing manner of motion. On the basis of the well-known typological distinction between verb-framed and satellite-framed languages, it is hypothesized that ...
Bert Cappelle, Cappelle, Bert
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Motion Verbs and Memory for Motion Events
Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2020 Language is widely assumed to play a role in memory by offering an additional medium of encoding visual stimuli. Given that natural languages differ, it is possible that cross-linguistic differences impact memory processes.
Anna Papafragou +2 more
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Where Do All the Motion Verbs Come From?: The Speed of Development of Manner Verbs and Path Verbs in Indo-European [PDF]
Diachronica, 2015 The last four decades have seen huge progress in the description and analysis of cross-linguistic diversity in the encoding of motion (Talmy 1985, 1991, Slobin 1996, 2004).
Annemarie Verkerk
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Japanese learners’ acquisition of English manner-of-motion verbs with locational/directional PPs
Second Language Research, 2002This study investigated first language (L1) influence on second language (L2) argument structure in a situation where an L2 argument structure forms a superset of its L1 counterpart. In such a situation, a partial fit between the L1 and the L2 may trigger L1 transfer, whereas availability of positive evidence may allow the learner to arrive at the L2 ...
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Can Adverbs Call Attention to Manner of Motion for 2-year-olds Learning Verbs?
2011In the current experiment, we propose that adverbs may likewise confer an advantage in verb learning. To our knowledge, no studies have examined the role of adverbs in verb learning in toddlers, although Wittek (2002) demonstrated that the adverb again can support verb learning in certain contexts with 5-year-olds.
Syrett, Kristen +2 more
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Manner of motion and directional verbs in spoken adult and child Romanian
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural StudiesThis paper presents the patterns of use for manner of motion and directional verbs in a corpus of oral adult-to-adult Romanian, and a longitudinal corpus of child Romanian comprising both adult-to-child and child data. In adult-to-adult speech, as well as adult-to-child speech, manner of motion verbs were much less frequently used than directional ...
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Expression of ‘Path’ with the Manner of Motion Verbs in Croatian
The conceptualization of motion at the level of a verb phrase includes several events that indicate the relationship between trajector and landmark. In this relationship, Path of motion (the direction of motion of the trajector in relation to the landmark) and Manner of motion (the way the trajector performs its motion) stand out as fundamental events.Blagus Bartolec, Goranka +1 more
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Manner of motion verbs in Italian : semantic distinctions and interlingual comparisons
2012IACOBINI, CLAUDIO, Vergaro Carla
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