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LEXICALIZATION OF THE MOTION EVENT OF “GOING” IN THE HOLY QURAN: A COGNITIVE APPROACH

open access: yesFluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2021
Motion is basic and universal concept and among the major life experiences of human beings. studies by Talmy marked the beginning of cognitive research into motion; he delineated the systematic relations among surface and deep structures and, based on ...
Fathyieh Fattahizadeh, Fatemeh Habibi
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Motion Verbs of Manner in FrameNet: A Comparison between Persian and English

open access: yesKervan. 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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Motion verbs and the expression of directed motion in English [PDF]

open access: yesBucharest 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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VERBOS DE MOVIMENTO EM PORTUGUÊS: CRITÉRIOS SEMÂNTICOS DE DELIMITAÇÃO

open access: yesStudia 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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Learnability problems in the acquisition of the manner-of-motion verbs in L2 English by L1 Spanish speakers

open access: yesRIDE 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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Lexicalizing directional and nondirectional motion in Emai

open access: yesStudies 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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Linguistic Typology in Motion Events: Expression of Motion Events in Translated Versions of Turkish and English Novels

open access: yesLitera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
This study aims at exploring how speakers of typologically different languages, Turkish “verb-framed” and English “satellite-framed” express motion events in translations.
Cemre İşler
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Toward a typology of directional motion for African Languages

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1997
This paper examines the syntactic and semantic expression of basic directional motion and its manner counterparts across the four language phyla of Africa.
Ronald P. Schaefer, Richard Gaines
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The Role of Motion Verbs in Conveying Path-Related Information in English and Slovene Fictive Motion Expressions

open access: yesELOPE, 2018
The paper presents a study on fictive motion (FM) uses of motion verbs in English and slovene from the point of view of conveying path-related information. An FM expression describes a static scene in terms of motion (e.g.
Frančiška Lipovšek
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Distinguishing Between Manner of Motion and Inherently Directed Motion Verbs Using a High-dimensional Memory Space and Semantic Judgments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Levin (1993) has proposed a semantic distinction between two types of motion verbs: manner of motion verbs and inherently directed motion verbs. In contrast, Jones (1995) has argued that this distinction is better accounted for by syntactic principles. Two simulations are presented that demonstrate that verb representations from the Hyperspace Analogue
Audet, Chad, Burgess, Curt
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