Abstract (EN):
We put forward a proposal based on the notion of path scale (e.g., Kennedy & Levin 2008) to account for the semantics of inherently directed motion verbs ir ('go') and vir ('come') combined with prepositional phrases (PPs) with the thematic role of Goal, headed by the prepositions para ('to/toward') and até ('to') in European Portuguese. We describe our corpus before discussing the syntactic and semantic properties of the predications we analyze as well as their similarity to predications with manner of motion verbs. We assume that motion verbs have an underspecified underlying scalar structure and that PPs contribute in a distinct way to the specification of one of the parameters of these path scales.
Language:
English
Type (Professor's evaluation):
Scientific
Notes:
Chapter 15
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