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Influence of Manner Adverbs on Action Verb Processing [PDF]
AbstractLanguage-motor interaction is suggested by the involvement of motor areas in action-related language processing. In a double-dissociation paradigm we aimed to investigate motor cortical involvement in the processing of hand- and foot-related action verbs combined with manner adverbs.
Alfons Schnitzler +2 more
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The Classification of Manner Verbs of Motion in Persian [In English] [PDF]
Taking the theory of motion event introduced by Talmy (2000a&b) into account as well as adopting the classification of motion verbs of English proposed by Ibaretxe-Antunano (2006), approved by Ozcaliskan (2004) and Slobin (2000), all of which cited in ...
Marziyeh Badiee, Zolfa Imani
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Valency patterns of manner of speaking verbs in Croatian
Manner of speaking verbs denote the transfer of a message through speech, emphasizing the volume, intensity, comprehensibility, psychophysical condition of the speaker, and/or the impression that the speaker leaves on the hearer.
Brač Ivana, Birtić Matea
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Expression of manner-of-motion verbs in translated versions of Turkish and English Short Stories: Implications for second language acquisition [PDF]
Since language strongly determines thinking and interpretation; users of different languages are expected to view the world from different perspectives.
Pınar KARAHAN, Sevgi GÖKÇE
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Spanish and Mandarin Chinese have been classified as verb-framed language and satellite-framed language respectively (Talmy: 1991, 2000). However, in Spanish, manner verbs are compatible with hacia and hasta, and a small group of them can do so with ...
María Azucena Penas Ibáñez, Tao Zhang
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Satellite-framed lexicalization of creation events in French?
As a typical verb-framed language, French has only limited ability to combine manner verbs with result-denoting constituents in the VP. Based on an event structural approach, this contribution explores the compatibility of different types of manner ...
Barbara Schirakowski
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Above and below verbal roots: A case study of English adverbs of results
This study investigates English resultative adverbs focusing on their syntactic peculiarities. Based on the observation that resultative adverbs can appear in certain activity verb phrases, we argue for an elaborate verbal structure.
Hyun Kyoung Jung, Jaehoon Choi
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Toward a typology of directional motion for African Languages
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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Shouting and screaming: manner and noise verbs in communication [PDF]
When a noise verb is used to indicate verbal communication, factors from both the source domain of the verb (perception) and the target domain (communication) play a role in determining the argument structure of the sentence. While the target domain supplies a syntactic structure, the source domain's semantics constrain the degree to which that ...
Urban, Margaret Urban +1 more
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Motion Verbs of Manner in FrameNet: A Comparison between Persian and English
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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