Motion Verbs in Italian and the Manner/Direction Complementarity

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-26 DOI:10.5296/ijl.v15i5.21346
Simonetta Vietri
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of Italian directed motion verbs and manner of motion verbs; the research is based on a lexical resource of 234 verbs subdivided into six classes. Directed motion verbs are analysed according to their argument structure and to the type of path PP they take: both source and goal PPs, only source PPs or only goal PPs. Furthermore, I have highlighted how the morphological, distributional and semantic properties of these verbs have an impact on their argument structure.Manner of motion verbs are analysed according to their unaccusative/unergative structure and on the semantic components they entail: only Manner or Manner and Direction. Analysis of the data shows that the semantics of both types of motion verbs depends in many cases on the distributional context in which they occur. As a result, it is not always an easy task to generalize the semantic components the verbs lexicalize. The Italian data also show that, contrary to the hypothesis proposed by Rappaport Hovav & Levin (2010) and Levin & Rappaport Hovav (2013) on the opposition between manner and direction, a subset of Italian motion verbs encodes both manner and direction. Moreover, the Italian lexicon shows an abundance of manner of motion verbs that can resort to a satellite-framed strategy, suggesting that the clearcut opposition between satellite-framed and verb-framed languages claimed in Talmy (1985) boils down to a tendency.
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意大利语中的运动动词与方式/方向互补
本文对意大利语的定向运动动词和运动动词的方式进行了实证分析;这项研究基于234个动词的词汇资源,这些动词被细分为6类。有向运动动词根据它们的论点结构和它们所采取的路径类型进行分析:源和目标都有,只有源和目标,或只有源和目标。此外,我还强调了这些动词的形态、分布和语义特性如何影响它们的论点结构。动作方式动词根据其非宾格/非否定结构及其所包含的语义成分进行分析:只有方式或方式和方向。对数据的分析表明,在许多情况下,这两种类型的动作动词的语义取决于它们发生的分布上下文。因此,概括动词词汇化的语义成分并不总是一件容易的事。意大利的数据还表明,与Rappaport Hovav &Levin(2010)和Levin &Rappaport Hovav(2013)关于方式和方向的对立,意大利语动作动词的一个子集编码方式和方向。此外,意大利语词汇中显示出大量可以采用卫星框架策略的动作动词,这表明Talmy(1985)所主张的卫星框架语言和动词框架语言之间的明确对立可以归结为一种趋势。
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期刊介绍: International Journal of American Linguistics is a world forum for the study of all the languages native to North, Central, and South America. Inaugurated by Franz Boas in 1917, IJAL concentrates on the investigation of linguistic data and on the presentation of grammatical fragments and other documents relevant to Amerindian languages.
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