Motion verbs and the expression of directed motion in English
Two commonly-held assumptions in the literature on the Goal of Motion construction in Englishare, on the one hand, that there is a clear-cut distinction between verbs of inherently directed motion andmanner-of-motion verbs regarding their semantics, in that the former include Path and the latter, Ma...
Main Author: | Ruxandra Drăgan |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2011-01-01
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Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/motion_verbs_and_the_expression_of_directed_motion_in_english |
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