FICTIVE MOTION: A COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS APPROACH
Sentences like the road runs along the valley or the tattoo runs along the spine are used by speakers in everyday language. Even though these sentences contain verbs of motion, actual motion does not take place. Cognitive linguists claim that such sentences imply a sense of motion and term it – fic...
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Moldova State University
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice |
| Online Access: | https://ojs.studiamsu.md/index.php/stiinte_umaniste/article/view/3825 |