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Litera: 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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Distinguishing Between Manner of Motion and Inherently Directed Motion Verbs Using a High-dimensional Memory Space and Semantic Judgments [PDF]
, 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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Toward a typology of directional motion for African Languages
Studies 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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ELOPE, 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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Acta Psychologica, 2021 In the context of the embodied cognition debate, an effect of motion verb associated speed information has previously been detected using eye-tracking, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and reaction times (RT). The latter, for instance, was implemented by Wender and Weber (1982), who observed that participants were faster in detecting ...
Linda von Sobbe +4 more
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The morpho-syntactic coding of motion events in Igbò
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2017 The phenomenon of motion events is universal in human cognition and language. These events are coded in the verbal structure of human language. This work builds on the past study of Igbo motion verbs and seeks to investigate the interaction between ...
Maduabuchi Sennen Agbo
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Comparison of motion verbs in Persian and English languages (A cognitive and typological approach) [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2019 In different languages, motion can be expressed through motion verbs that are encoded differently in different languages. The aim of this research is to compare the motion verbs in both Persian and English languages from the cognitive and typological ...
Najmeh Eslamipour +1 more
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Journal of Language and Literature, 2021 This paper investigates the quantitative distribution (type and token frequencies, and type-per-token ratio [TTR]) of motion verbs found in English and Indonesian versions of the novel Twilight (Meyer, 2005; Sari, 2008).
Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg +1 more
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A Qualitative Study of Actual and Non-Actual Motion Expressions in Telugu and its Implications
Bhasha, 2022 This paper examines the similarities and differences between actual motion (AM) and non-actual motion (NAM) expressions in Telugu via a qualitative approach.
Naidu, Viswanatha
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A semantic approach to auxiliary selection with German verbs of motion. An empirical study
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2018 German manner-of-motion verbs can take both haben ‘have’ and sein ‘be’ as perfect auxiliaries. It has recently been proposed that, in these cases, auxiliary selection is determined by the feature [locomotion], where [+locomotion] triggers sein ‘be’ and [-
Wojciech Lewandowski
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