On the Notions of Path and Manner of Motion in the Expression of Motion Events : Categorization of Motion Verbs

• MORITA Takahiro

  University of Tokyo

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 移動表現研究における経路と様態の概念 : 移動動詞の分類
• イドウ ヒョウゲン ケンキュウ ニ オケル ケイロ ト ヨウタイ ノ ガイネン イドウ ドウシ ノ ブンルイ

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the aspectual properties of motion verbs in French in order to redefine the notions of path and manner of motion. The literature of this domain has developed two conceptual categories of motion verbs: path verbs and manner verbs. Against this dichotomy, this article proposes three core categories of motion verbs and their intermediate classes using aspectual properties and the notion of linearity as the criteria for categorization: (i) polar path verbs that make motion events telic, (ii) directional verbs that appear in an atelic and linear motion event, and (iii) manner of motion verbs that are also atelic, but destitute of linearity.

Journal

• Bulletin d'Etudes de Linguistique Francaise

  Bulletin d'Etudes de Linguistique Francaise 45 (1), 53-61, 2011

  SOCIETE JAPONAISE DE LINGUISTIQUE FRANCAISE

Keywords

• path
• manner
• typology
• aspect
• linearity

Details

• CRID: 1390001205769931392
• NII Article ID: 110009861365
• NII Book ID: AN00220219
• DOI: 10.20579/belf.45.1_53
• ISSN: 24320668
• ISSN: 02868601
• NDL BIB ID: 11139516
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I11139516
• Text Lang: ja
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