Spatial verbs are demonstration verbs

How motion verbs are spatial: the spatial foundations of intransitive motion verbs in French

Are Verbs Less Prominent?

The perceived prominence of three parts of speech (POS), nouns, verbs and adjectives, in three utterance positions, initial, intermediate and final, were examined in a perceptual experiment to see whether previously observed reductions in prominence of intermediate items were the result of positional effects or because words in this position belonged to the same POS, namely verbs. It was found ...

Verbs, events and spatial representations.

Are concepts expressed in language also represented spatially? To pursue this question we investigated the structure of events. Events are defined as actions with spatial trajectories that can be perceived by our senses and described in language. Events are expressed linguistically in sentences containing verbs which determine the thematic roles of the arguments (e.g., who is doing what to whom...

Are verbs like inanimate objects?

One of the most compelling findings in aphasic research is that neurological impairment may affect words of one grammatical class more than others, for instance, verbs more than nouns (e.g., Miceli, Silveri, Villa, & Caramazza, 1984; McCarthy & Warrington, 1985) or vice versa (e.g., Bates, Chen, Tzeng, Li, & Opie, 1991; Zingeser & Berndt, 1988). The underlying mechanisms of such grammatical dis...

Understanding Verbs based on Overlapping Verbs Senses

Natural language can be easily understood by everyone irrespective of their differences in age or region or qualification. The existence of a conceptual base that underlies all natural languages is an accepted claim as pointed out by Schank in his Conceptual Dependency (CD) theory. Inspired by the CD theory and theories in Indian grammatical tradition, we propose a new set of meaning primitives...