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Manner and causation in movement verbs [PDF]
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2006 This paper investigates the semantic underpinnings of the distinction between two syntactic types of "manner of movement" verbs in Levin (1993), namely the RUN and ROLL classes. According to Levin's (1993) and Levin & Rappaport's (1995) work on unaccusativity, a semantic factor of "internal causation" should be the trigger for the classification of
Geuder, Wilhelm, Weisgerber, Matthias
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Motion Verbs in Italian and the Manner/Direction Complementarity
International Journal of Linguistics, 2023 This paper presents an empirical analysis of Italian directed motion verbs and manner of motion verbs; the research is based on a lexical resource of 234 verbs subdivided into six classes. Directed motion verbs are analysed according to their argument structure and to the type of path PP they take: both source and goal PPs, only source PPs or only goal
Simonetta Vietri
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Investigating the ways of cooking and the properties of cook verbs in Nilamba (Bantu F31)
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThe motivation for the current study is based on the existing body of research on variations in the lexical semantic properties of cook verbs, particularly in the manner and result components of meaning across languages.
Stella Michael Kiula, Amani Lusekelo
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Prepositions and prepositional verbs in classical Arabic [PDF]
, 1983 The thesis consists of two parts. The first one is connected with the establishment of Preposition as a word class, and with that class of Prepositions whose association with the governing word is accounted for in a transformational generative grammar ...
Fiteih, Mohammad Soliman Ibrahim
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Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs
, 2017 In this paper we consider the nature of ‘result verbs’, typically defined as verbs describing scalar changes, which have played a significant role in literature on verb typologies, event structures, and theories of (im)possible word meanings.
Beavers, John, Koontz-Garboden, Andrew
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Satellite-framed lexicalization of creation events in French?
Isogloss, 2022 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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Influence of Manner Adverbs on Action Verb Processing [PDF]
, 2021 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.
Jan Sieksmeyer +5 more
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Les verbes exprimant la manière de se déplacer en russe
Revue des études slaves, 2018 This paper deals with Russian verbs expressing displacement in space, but which do not belong to the category of ‘motion verbs’ as it is traditionally defined in the literature. More specifically, we attempt to delineate the class of verbs indicating the
Vladimir Beliakov, Dejan Stosic
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ARE MANNER OF SPEAKING VERBS TRULY MANNER?
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2020 Manner of speaking verbs (MoS) are said to induce strong island effects, in contrast with verbs of communication, which allow extraction. The main studies which tried to account for this distinction focused either on the existence of a manner component, of an added layer of meaning, or on that of a nominal element, corresponding to the resulting ...
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VERBOS DE MOVIMENTO EM PORTUGUÊS: CRITÉRIOS SEMÂNTICOS DE DELIMITAÇÃO
Studia 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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