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Demonstrative Verbs: A Typology of Verbal Manner Deixis
Linguistic Typology, 2015 Abstract This article presents a typological characterization of a class of demonstratives so far neglected in the literature: demonstrative verbs expressing manner. First, the morphological characteristics and syntactic behaviors of these demonstratives are examined to illustrate their verbal properties and to justify categorizing them ...
Guérin, Valérie
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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 and Result Verbs in Mandarin Chinese
2022Abstract The distinction between manner and result verbs arises from the event structure approach to verb meaning. In this approach verb meaning consists of two parts, a structural component that includes a small number of primitive predicates indicating event types, and a root component that describes idiosyncratic actions and states.
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2005
Abstract This chapter presents evidence showing that denominal verbs in English, of both the location/locatum and the unergative variety, are ‘measured-out’ by the incorporated nominal Root. This strongly supports the l-syntactic approach of Hale and Keyser (1993), since it shows parallel semantic effects of identical structures in ...
Heidi Harley
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Abstract This chapter presents evidence showing that denominal verbs in English, of both the location/locatum and the unergative variety, are ‘measured-out’ by the incorporated nominal Root. This strongly supports the l-syntactic approach of Hale and Keyser (1993), since it shows parallel semantic effects of identical structures in ...
Heidi Harley
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Italian deverbal verbs in -Vcchiare: a Manner of Approximating
Lingue e linguaggio, 2023In this work, we propose an analysis of Italian verbs containing the suffix -Vcchiare, such as leggiucchiare 'to read a little / to read in a cursory fashion', mangiucchiare ‘to eat a little / to nibble’, studiacchiare 'to study a little / to study fitfully'.
Corona Luisa, Russo Gina
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From Movement to Metaphor with Manner-of-Movement Verbs
Applied Linguistics, 2005This paper concerns three two-stage experiments the aim of which was to find out whether enactment- and mime-based (EM and (2) more accurately interpret previously unknown metaphorical expressions which include them. The results of the experiments, which involved Dutch-speaking, young-adult advanced learners, provide evidence that mnemonic benefits ...
Lindstromberg, Seth, Boers, Frank
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The syntax-semantics interface in English manner of speaking verbs
Lingue e linguaggio, 2016This study investigates the syntax-semantics interface in English Manner of Speaking verbs. Firstly, we propose a fine-grained description of these verbs including the physical auditory components as well as the semantic-pragmatic components. Secondly, we carry out a corpus-based analysis of Manner of Speaking verbs concentrating on fictive path ...
Sandford, Jodi L. +3 more
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Manner modification of state verbs
2008Abstract The analysis of manner adverbs as event predicates, first proposed by Davidson (1967) and argued for extensively by Parsons (1990), has become a standard part of the received semantic cannon (Kamp and Reyle 1993; Chierchia and McConnell-Ginet 2000). On this now-traditional analysis, a sentence like (1a) is analyzed at some level
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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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Manner of displacement verbs in Russian
2018Dans le présent article, nous nous interessons aux verbes russes qui indiquent le déplacement d’une entité dans l’espace, mais qui ne relèvent pas de la catégorie des « verbes de mouvement » telle que définie dans la littérature spécialisée. Plus précisément, nous nous proposons de délimiter la classe des verbes de manière de se déplacer en mettant en ...
Beliakov, Vladimir, Stosic, Dejan
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