Result verbs, scalar change, and the typology of motion verbs

Towards a Revision of the Typology of Motion Verbs

This paper looks at expressions of motion events in German and Dutch. More specifically, we will reconsider the well-established two-dimensionsal characterization of motion verbs in terms of path and manner of motion. The two semantic components of path and manner have been said to be the core distinguishing features in descriptions of motion events (cf. Talmy 1985, 1991, Slobin 2000). Accordin...

The Manner/Result Complementarity in Chinese Motion Verbs Revisited

Motion Verbs and Vision

-In the present paper we aim at the use of the analysis of the definitions of the Motion Verbs for the application to the understanding and description of action sequences such as those recorded in a video. The main points of computer processing of verbs of motion involve that the definitions are given as input to a system that produces an output that gives a grouping of the verbs and synthesiz...

Scalar Implicatures of Russian Verbs

In this paper we address the common claim that perfective verbs presuppose the initial phase (or a process part) of events denoted by them, and assert their final phase (or a culmination part), while the meaning of imperfective verbs lacks both these components. Different formulations of this claim have been proposed by Padučeva (1996, 2011) and Romanova (2006) for Russian, and by Dočekal and K...

Semantics of motion verbs

Motion verbs in languages convey the meanings of spatiotemporal change. Ontologies that deal with spatial actions can benefit from the study of such verbs and their usage. This paper explores semantic components of motion related verbs and verb complexes. Such semantics components assume certain spatial primitives and intuitions which need to be considered in the context of ontologies derived f...