Analysis of Expressions with Movement Verbs in Function of Lexical Economy and Redundancy: English-Spanish Contrastive Study Cover Image

Análisis de las expresiones con verbos de movimiento en función de economía y redundancia léxicas: estudio contrastivo inglés-español
Analysis of Expressions with Movement Verbs in Function of Lexical Economy and Redundancy: English-Spanish Contrastive Study

Author(s): Katarzyna Gołębiowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: linguistic economy; redundancy; verbal expressions; contrastive linguistics; movement verbs

Summary/Abstract: This text constitutes a contrastive analysis of lexical economy and redundancy in verbal expressions. For this purpose, a bilateral study of the diacritical examples is carried out in two selected languages: English and Spanish. The analysis is based on a manual parallel corpus, which consists of verbal expressions collected in two versions of the same narrative literature text: A moveable feast / París era una fiesta by Ernest Hemingway. Our task is, above all, to compare the numerical data obtained after the census with the theories elaborated by the typological tradition. Taking into account the defining parameters of the phenomenon of economy, we establish its scale based on the empirical analysis of expressions with movement verb — one of the fundamental verb classes. These references lead us to the conclusion which language of the two listed above is more economic and which is more redundant in the lexical perspective.

  • Issue Year: 68/2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 179-192
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Spanish