LEXICAL SPECIFICATION AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH AND SERBIAN SOUND EMISSION VERBS
LEXICAL SPECIFICATION AND ARGUMENT STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH AND SERBIAN SOUND EMISSION VERBS
Author(s): Nataša R. MilivojevićSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: animacy; argument structure; lexical specification; motion event; sound emission; teleology
Summary/Abstract: The paper addresses the question of what semantic properties lexicalized in verbs determine their syntactic behavior with subjects as (non)-agents in unaccusative motion constructions. Special attention is devoted to English and Serbian verbs of emission (specifically verbs of sound and partly verbs of light emission), regarding their potential to surface as verbs of motion and combine with directional phrases within motion event constructions.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 235-246
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English