| Title: | Motion verbs and the expression of directed motion in English |
| Author: | Ruxandra Drăgan |
| Publication: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, XIII (2) |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-9239 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din București |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: | Two commonly-held assumptions in the literature on the Goal of Motion construction in English are, on the one hand, that there is a clear-cut distinction between verbs of inherently directed motion and manner-of-motion verbs regarding their semantics, in that the former include Path and the latter, Manner in their semantic make-up, and that affects the way in which they express motion to/towards a Goal (by combining with an obligatory/optional directional PP), and, on the other hand, that manner-of-motion verbs freely participate in the Goal of Motion construction. The present article challenges these assumptions and proposes that motion verbs in English form a continuum (a Directionality Squish) along which they range from those that always express directed motion to those that never do so. |
| Key words: | directed motion, verbs of inherently directed motion, manner-of-motion verbs, directional phrases. |
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