Abstract (EN):
In the chapter we analyse two verbs of inherently directed motion such as ir `go¿
and vir `come¿ in two different modality languages ¿ EP (European Portuguese) and
LGP (Portuguese Sign Language), in order to discuss their main properties. We show
that Romance languages, and Portuguese in particular, are not only verb-framed in
the way they express motion and manner of motion and we show the importance
of Prepositional Phrases in the construction of argument structure of verbs. As for
Sign languages, and specifically LGP, we show, starting from a brief corpus, that this
language, being closer to an ¿equipollently-framed language¿, has some properties
that indicate that verbs are not the only way to express movement. We conclude that
more important than a typological classification it is crucial to analyse morphological,
lexical and syntactic resources that languages have in order to express manner and
path of motion.
Language:
English
Type (Professor's evaluation):
Scientific