On the Semantics of English Verbs of Locomotion
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Year of publication | 2005 |
Type | Article in Proceedings |
Conference | Theory and Practice in English Studies 3: Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, ed. J.Chovanec |
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Field | Linguistics |
Keywords | semantics;English verbs of locomotion |
Description | The paper shows that directionality of motion does not have an additive status and that the sparsity of information about the manner of motion is related to the obligatory presence of a directional goal of motion. |