L’EXPRESSION DU DÉPLACEMENT EN ROUMAIN :
PERSPECTIVES ROMANES
MOTION-EVENT DESCRIPTIONS IN ROMANIAN: ROMANCE LANGUAGES PERSPECTIVES
Author(s): Benjamin FAGARDSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: motion events; space, typology; Romance languages;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to place Romanian within Talmy’s motion event typology (Talmy 1991), especially with respect to other Romance languages, on the basis of an elicitation task consisting of a series of videos. We compare the resulting data with corresponding data in Italian and French. The results indicate that, as noted by previous studies (Reinheimer 1965, Dragomirescu in Pană Dindelegan 2013), motion event descriptions in Romanian are much like what is found in other Romance languages: Path is mostly expressed in the verb, and the lexical stock is primarily of Latin origin.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Craiova. Seria Ştiinţe Filologice. Limbi şi literaturi romanice.
- Issue Year: XXIII/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 40-61
- Page Count: 22
- Language: French