Linguistic and non-linguistic investigation of motion events
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2011/04/0006/000175Keywords:
motion events, typology, language and cognitionAbstract
The verb-framed vs. satellite-framed language dichotomy (Talmy, 1985) is the most common framework used in the cross-linguistic investigation of motion event expressions. According to this classification, French is a verb-framed language; it integrates the path of motion into the main verb and uses a separate component to express the manner of motion. On the other hand, English—a satellite-framed language—gives the manner information in the main verb and expresses the path of motion with a separate component. This study uses this dichotomy to see whether the motion event expression patterns of these two different languages (French and English) are also reflected in their motion event categorizations.
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