This study develops a detailed semantic analysis of a dozen COME and GO verbs in an eastern Bantu language, Chindali...
Keywords: Bantu, Chindali, deixis, lexical semantics, motion verb, verb chaining in discourse
02/2005 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterWhile motion verbs in some languages display selectional restrictions for their spatial complements, motion verbs in other languages freely combine with any type of spatial complement...
Keywords: preposition, motion verb, spatial relation, lexicalization pattern, reanalysis
01/2008 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag