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Journal of Pragmatics, 2007
Manner-of-motion verbs are frequently used in English narratives to portray motion events in vivid terms. This use of motion verbs contrasts with their use in non-narrative texts where the verbs are used to qualify static entities, and often instantiate figurative phenomena.
Rosario Caballero
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Chapter 3. Common Slavic “indeterminate” verbs of motion were really manner-of-motion verbs

Studies in Language Companion Series, 2010
This paper attempts to reinterpret the class of Common Slavic indeterminate verbs of motion, e.g., xoditi ‘walk’, nositi ‘carry’, as manner-of-motion verbs. I examine the attestations of indeterminate verbs of motion in contexts of determinate motion taken primarily from Old Church Slavic and Old Russian texts to form the basis for this ...
Stephen Dickey
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Dutch manner of motion verbs: Disentangling auxiliary choice, telicity and syntactic function

Cognitive Linguistics, 2012
Abstract 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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A compositional analysis of manner-of-motion verbs in Italian

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2007
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, Zubizarreta Maria Luisa +1 more
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