Several studies of L2 learners’ interlanguage have addressed the complexity of the English adpositional system due to several reasons like L1 transfer, lack of knowledge in L2 and the strong collocational relations of prepositions with other elements of the English language. The major purpose of the present study is to evaluate the performance of Iranian students in dealing with three broad cat...

Typically in English, a "satellite-framed" language, manner is expressed in the verb and path is expressed in supporting words. Past studies using looking time techniques suggest that English-speaking 3-year-olds show language-specific action processing, but 2.5-year-olds preferentially attend to path regardless of native language. In Study 1, we test whether language-specific action component ...

In this paper we give an account of the representation of Danish verbs in the semantic lexicon model, SIMPLE. Danish is a satellite-framed language where prepositions and adverbial particles express what in many other languages form part of the meaning of the verb stem. This aspect of Danish – as well as of the other Scandinavian languages challenges the borderlines of a universal, strictly mod...

Languages encode space in strikingly different ways (Talmy, 2000): Satelliteframed languages (e.g., English) lexicalize Manner in verb roots and express Path in satellites, whereas Verb-framed languages (e.g., French) lexicalize Path in verb roots, leaving Manner implicit or peripheral; other languages present parallel systems in which both Verband Satellite-framed structures are available (e.g...

Given that Mandarin is a verb-serializing language, Russian a satellite-framed language, and Spanish a verb-framed language, the current study examines Mandarin college students’ acquisition of Russian and Spanish as L2, to understand the strength of L1 preferences for expression of PATH on Russian and Spanish majors’ second language acquisition in Taiwan. Based on oral narrative data, the stud...

1-introduction languages employ different strategies to represent motion as one of the basic human cognitive abilities. in talmy's typological dichotomy (1991; 2000b) languages are of two types according to the way they represent path either in verb roots or in satellites, accordingly languages are either verb framed or satellite framed. slobin (1991;1996 a,b.1997;2000) performed corpus based a...

The aim of this study is to examine how speakers typologically different languages, Turkish (a verb-framed language, V-language) and English satellite-framed S-language) express manner motion events each language adapts itself the demands other in translations with regard use manner-of-motion verbs. In respect, a total 20 short stories (10 10 English) were selected analyze. effort was made incl...

The general aim of this paper is to explore different ways of expressing static location in French and Serbian. Both languages use three main types of locative predicates : neutral verbs (e.g. FR. être ‘to be’), posture verbs (e.g. ENG. to sit, to lie, to stand) and verbs expressing fictive motion, i.e. verbs whose reference is to motion but which actually describe static situations (e.g. The r...

Speakers of satellite-framed languages (S-languages such as English) express manner more frequently than speakers of verb-framed languages (V-languages such as Spanish) because Slanguages use "satellite" phrases to encode path, leaving the verb free to encode manner (Talmy, 1985, Slobin, 2004). Gestures have also been shown to follow these cross-linguistic differences. While numerous studies ha...

Abstract The current study explores how multilingual speakers with three typologically different languages (satellite-framed, verb-framed and equipollent-framed) encode gauge event similarity in the domain of caused motion. Specifically, it addresses whether, to what extent, acquisition an L2-English L3-Japanese reconstructs lexicalization conceptualization patterns established L1-Cantonese whe...