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Manner-of-Motion Verbs in Wine Description
Journal of Pragmatics, 2007Manner-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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Manner of Motion Saliency: An Inquiry Into Italian
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Cause and motion meet manner in translation
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, 2023The SEND‐NP‐V‐ING‐PP construction, the transitive variant of the V‐V‐ING‐OBL pattern, also incorporates the Goal of Motion (cf. Dragan 2016b). According to Talmy (1985; 2000), the Goal of Motion is favored by speakers of Germanic languages to describe motion events, but it is not generally available in Romance, where motion is typically expressed by ...
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Attention to Manner of Motion in Arabic Novels: A Diachronic Study
International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, 2023The objective of this work is to conduct a corpus-based diachronic investigation of lexicalization patterns of motion events as well as attention to manner of motion in Arabic narrative writing. Motivated by the scarcity of research on Arabic motion events, this study aims to identify the main linguistic constructions used to express motion events in ...
Mohammad Alhailawani
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On the Syntactic Composition of Manner and Motion
2007This crosslinguistic study of the structure of motion predicates argues for the universal syntactic nature of the composition of manner and motion within the verbal constituent. In serial verb languages, manner and motion are overtly represented as two distinct morphosyntactic units, sequentially ordered. Zubizarreta and Oh argue that the same analysis
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, Eunjeong Oh
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The Function of Manner Adverbials in Fictive Motion Expressions
Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2021The paper presents a study on fictive motion (FM) expressions, linguistic manifestations of the conceptualization of stationary scenes in terms of motion (e.g. The road slowly climbs through fertile valleys and plantations). It focuses on the role of manner adverbials, building on the premise that since motion verbs in FM uses do not describe actual ...
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Translating manner-of-motion in comics
Target. International Journal of Translation StudiesAbstract This article presents a corpus-based investigation of the translation of manner-of-motion from a multilingual and multimodal perspective. The corpus consists of five French comics, along with their corresponding translations from one Chinese version and two English versions.
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Manner and path of motion in descriptions of motion trajectories by Polish L2 users of English
EUROSLA Yearbook, 2015The study offers an in-depth analysis of motion descriptions in Polish and English, i.e. a typologically related pair of languages that differ in manner salience, by Polish second language users of English. 20 bilingual Polish-English speakers were recruited among senior year students in an English-medium university programme and compared with Polish ...
Anna Ewert, Weronika Krzebietke
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2019
The chapter deals with the lexical coding of manner of motion in French. A twofold aim is pursued: to provide a better understanding of what manner is from the semantic point of view and to determine what makes some motion verbs express manner and others not.
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The chapter deals with the lexical coding of manner of motion in French. A twofold aim is pursued: to provide a better understanding of what manner is from the semantic point of view and to determine what makes some motion verbs express manner and others not.
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Manner/Path Typology of Bulgarian Motion Verbs
Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 2015This study examines the Bulgarian motion verb system in terms of what information is typically conveyed by motion verbs in addition to motion itself. The theoretical framework is Talmy’s (1985) typological theory, which divides languages into low-manner verb-framed languages and high-manner satellite-framed languages according to what additional ...
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