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- Title
Lexical Decomposition in Understanding Italian and English Motion Verb.
- Authors
Bandecchi, Valeria; Keane, Mark T.
- Abstract
In this paper, we combine linguistic analyses based on Event Templates (Rappaport Hovav and Levin 1998a) and psychological proposals on the complexity of verb meanings to develop an analysis of the proposed complexity differences in motion verbs in English (as a satellite--framed language) and Italian (as a verb-framed language). The key prediction from this analysis is that for both languages manner-of-motion verbs take longer to be processed than path-motion verbs: that is to say, independently of the language specific lexicalization patterns, the more complex the structure, the longer the time to process it. We also outline some recent findings that have a bearing on this prediction.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language -- Verb; ITALIAN language; LEXICAL access; LINGUISTICS research; LINGUISTIC complexity; STRUCTURAL linguistics
- Publication
Suvremena Lingvistika, 2013, Vol 39, Issue 76, p107
- ISSN
0586-0296
- Publication type
Article