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...

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Main Author: Ruxandra Drăgan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2011-01-01
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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