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Article: Verbs and nouns convey different types of motion in event descriptions *.
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- Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Abstract
This paper reviews the evidence for Kersten's (1998a) theory of a division of labor between nouns and relational terms in the description of a motion event. According to this theory, nouns tend to convey intrinsic motion, or motion defined with respect to a frame of reference internal to the object carrying it out. Relational terms, on the other hand, tend to convey different types of motion from those conveyed by nouns. The prototypical relational term conveys extrinsic motion, or motion defined with respect to an external frame of reference. Even when verbs do convey intrinsic motion, the motions conveyed by such verbs are more general and abstract ...
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