Lexicalization Patterns of Path Motion in Vietnamese

This paper investigates how Vietnamese people express motion by using path verbs. This paper is based on the theory of lexicalization patterns, which is related to the conflation of semantic components into linguistic units. The data consists of expressions of motion verbs and spatial prepositions t...

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Main Author: Ngoc Toan Ly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Hawaii Press 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52475