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Towards a Revision of the Typology of Motion Verbs
2012Path and manner of movement are generally taken to be the core distinguishing features in descriptions of motion events. It is proposed here that this two-dimensional characterization of the lexical semantics of motion verbs needs to be reconsidered. We introduce a new research method, the cross-linguistic dictionary-lookup analysis, by means of which ...
Sander Lestrade, Nina Reshöft
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2017
This book is a study of how motion is expressed in medieval English. It provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English. It shows that also several non-motion verbs can receive contextual motion meanings through their use in the ...
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This book is a study of how motion is expressed in medieval English. It provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English. It shows that also several non-motion verbs can receive contextual motion meanings through their use in the ...
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On Defining Motion Verbs and Spatial Prepositions
1990In a computational system for describing and understanding descriptions of spatial relations and motion events in natural language (city scenes or soccer games, for example), there is a need for a referential semantics of motion verbs and spatial prepositions that is both structurally coherent and (ideally) general enough to be used for both ...
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Pragmatics & Cognition, 1995
This paper focuses on a distinction between two kinds of information in verb meanings: a highly structured, templatic part of the meaning, based on aspectual properties of the verb, and apart of the meaning which contributes to filling gaps in the templatic information.
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This paper focuses on a distinction between two kinds of information in verb meanings: a highly structured, templatic part of the meaning, based on aspectual properties of the verb, and apart of the meaning which contributes to filling gaps in the templatic information.
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Motion verbs and memory for motion events
Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2020Anna Papafragou +2 more
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How to talk about motion without verbs
Metaphor in Language, Cognition Communication, 2022Jean M Mandler
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