On the Principled Connections between the Semantic Structure of Verbs of Locomotion in English and Their Syntactic Behaviour.
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Theories and Practices : proceedings of the third international conference on Anglophone studies |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | verbal semantics; conceptual structure; spatial structure; causal structuration |
| Description | The paper demonstrates that differences between manner of locomotion verbs are not merely a matter of perceptual domain but manifest themselves at a conceptual level. Semantic distinctions among manner of locomotion verbs result in differences in their syntactic behaviour. |