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- Title
EL COMPONENTE SEMÁNTICO TRAYECTORIA Y LOS VERBOS DE MOVIMIENTO EN ESPAÑOL.
- Authors
Benavides, Carlos
- Abstract
There is a debate in the literature, sometimes implicit, as to what are the semantic elements that make up the lexical entries of verbs. A significant number of Spanish verbs belong to the broad class of manner. Such is the case of many motion verbs, which in turn usually contain other semantic components such as MEANS or PATH. Through a corpus study the present paper explores whether the lexical entries of two types of motion verbs contain the PATH (TRAJECTORY) feature, a key element associated with motion verbs. The results suggest that manner of motion verbs which intuitively imply displacement (correr 'run') have a conceptual structure in which PATH is in effect represented. On the other hand, manner of motion verbs which intuitively do not involve displacement (menear 'wiggle') lack the feature PATH. The corpus study thus supports linguistic judgments made on the basis of native speaker intuitions.
- Subjects
COMPARATIVE linguistics; MEANING of meaning theory (Communication); SEMANTICS -- Study &; teaching; LITERATURE &; anthropology; LEXICAL grammar; VERBS; SPANISH language education; NATIVE language; ORAL communication; LANGUAGE &; culture; ANTHROPOLOGICAL linguistics
- Publication
Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 2009, Vol 28, Issue 2, p67
- ISSN
0737-4143
- Publication type
Article