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Directed motion entailments in the semantics of roots: A root-sensitive approach [PDF]
, 2021 Syntactic, decompositional theories of verb meaning hold that verbs are created in the syntax by merging roots, which provide idiosyncratic information, with functional heads, which introduce structural components of meaning such as change or causation ...
Ausensi, Josep +2 more
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Categorization of directional motion verbs [PDF]
, 2020 This study presents a proposal of categorization of directional motion verbs, i.e. ones whose lexical semantics specifies a direction of motion, even without an overt directional complementation.
Jacek Waliński, Waliński, Jacek
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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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Motion Verbs in Italian and the Manner/Direction Complementarity
, 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.
Simonetta Vietri
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The company that words keep: comparing the statistical structure of child- versus adult-directed language [PDF]
, 2013 Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free associates), contextual diversity, word repetitions and frequency were ...
Hills, Thomas Trenholm
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Motion event and deictic motion verbs as path-conflating verbs [PDF]
, 2006 This paper attempts to decompose the Motion event into such elements as Figure, Path, Vector, and Ground based upon Talmy\u27s framework, which makes it possible to formally analyze and compare the lexical semantics of the deictic motion verbs within and
Nakazawa, Tsuneko
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On some active participles with motion verbs [PDF]
, 2021 The aim of this study is to analyse the structures containing a participle combined with a motion verb, in cases such as venir plorat de casa (lit. ‘to come cried from home’ / intend. ‘to come after crying at home’).
Crespí, Isabel
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Algumas considerações sobre leituras estativas de verbos de movimento em Português Europeu [PDF]
, 2019 A significant number of the so-called verbs of motion exhibit a consistent alternation between an eventive and a stative reading. In this view, the main goal of this paper is to investigate the linguistic factors that contribute to this aspectual ...
Leal, António +5 more
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Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yali
, 2022 International audienceThis chapter investigates expressions of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) events in Yali, a Trans New-Guinea language of West Papua, Indonesia.
Riesberg, Sonja, Sonja Riesberg
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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong +12 more
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