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Motion verbs and the expression of directed motion in English [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 Two commonly-held assumptions in the literature on the Goal of Motion construction in Englishare, on the one hand, that there is a clear-cut distinction between verbs of inherently directed motion andmanner-of-motion verbs regarding their semantics, in ...
Ruxandra Drăgan
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Motion Verbs of Manner in FrameNet: A Comparison between Persian and English
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020 This study aims to comparatively investigate the semantic frames of motion verbs in Persian and English within the framework of the frame semantics theory (Fillmore 1977; 1982; 1985).
Zolfa Imani, Rezvan Motavallian
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Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs
, 2017 In this paper we consider the nature of ‘result verbs’, typically defined as verbs describing scalar changes, which have played a significant role in literature on verb typologies, event structures, and theories of (im)possible word meanings.
Beavers, John, Koontz-Garboden, Andrew
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Motion Verbs in Learner Corpora
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2018 Motions verbs differ across languages in respect of spatial relations and syntactic/semantic conceptualization. Languages have two typological groups for motion events: (a) verb-framed languages in which the main verb expresses the core information of ...
M. Pınar BABANOĞLU
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Motion Verbs in Italian and the Manner/Direction Complementarity
, 2023 This paper presents an empirical analysis of Italian directed motion verbs and manner of motion verbs; the research is based on a lexical resource of 234 verbs subdivided into six classes.
Simonetta Vietri
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Cognitive Lexicography: Reimagining English Manner of Motion Verbs
Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021 The present paper draws on cognitive lexicography, a relatively new amalgamation of lexicography and cognitive linguistics, to approach the curation of manner of motion verb entries in online bilingual Turkish-English dictionaries. Following Dalpanagioti’s methodology and analysis (651), the study adopts the following steps in creating an online ...
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VERBOS DE MOVIMENTO EM PORTUGUÊS: CRITÉRIOS SEMÂNTICOS DE DELIMITAÇÃO
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2017 Motion verbs in Portuguese: semantic criteria of delimitation. This paper aims to provide a semantic analysis of the lexical field of motion verbs in Portuguese.
Adriana CIAMA
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RIDE Revista Iberoamericana para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Educativo, 2021 En inglés la oración “John ran into the house” tiene un significado semántico de dirección mientras que la misma oración, en español, tiene un significado semántico de ubicación. La diferencia reside en que, en el idioma inglés, los verbos conocidos como verbos de movimiento que al combinarse con una preposición de dirección resultan en una oración de
Salvador Bautista Maldonado +2 more
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The influence of language-specific and universal factors on acquisition of motion verbs [PDF]
, 2021 This study explores children’s encoding of novel verbs referring to motion events, and finds influence of both language-specific and universal constraints on meaning.
Harrigan, Kaitlyn +3 more
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Lexicalizing directional and nondirectional motion in Emai
Studies in African Linguistics, 1986 Motion expressions in Emai, an Edoid language of Nigeria, are examined within the lexical typology of Talmy [1985]. Both directional and nondirectional motion structures involving the MANNER verb la 'to run' are analyzed, though only the former ...
Ronald P. Schaefer
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