Lexicalization Patterns of English and Armenian Verbs of “Speech Activity”

The article studies the relation between the lexicalization patters of English and Armenian verbs of speech activity and their syntactic characteristics based on L. Talmy’s typology. The latter distinguishes between two types of languages – the so-called “satellite-framed” languages where the semant...

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Main Author: Lilit Badalyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yerevan State University 2012-10-01
Series:Armenian Folia Anglistika
Online Access:https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/arm-fol-angl/article/view/4561
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description The article studies the relation between the lexicalization patters of English and Armenian verbs of speech activity and their syntactic characteristics based on L. Talmy’s typology. The latter distinguishes between two types of languages – the so-called “satellite-framed” languages where the semantic component of manner of the action is lexicalized in the meaning of motion verbs, and the direction of the action is expressed by other means and “verb-framed” languages where the meaning of the verb comprises the component of the direction of the action. An attempt has been made to apply Talmy’s theory to a semantic group of English and Armenian verbs of speech activity choosing 80 English and 60 Armenian verbs which contain the semantic component of the manner of action. For a clearer picture 2000 sentences from the National British Corpus and 1500 sentences from Eastern Armenian corpus have been studied since the syntactic possibilities of verbs are largely conditioned by various combinations of the semantic components of the meaning of verbs.
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spelling doaj.art-72d321391690402393397ac5b8acd2aa2022-12-21T23:18:51ZengYerevan State UniversityArmenian Folia Anglistika1829-24292579-30392012-10-0181-2 (10)10.46991/AFA/2012.8.1-2.065Lexicalization Patterns of English and Armenian Verbs of “Speech Activity”Lilit Badalyan0Yerevan State Linguistic UniversityThe article studies the relation between the lexicalization patters of English and Armenian verbs of speech activity and their syntactic characteristics based on L. Talmy’s typology. The latter distinguishes between two types of languages – the so-called “satellite-framed” languages where the semantic component of manner of the action is lexicalized in the meaning of motion verbs, and the direction of the action is expressed by other means and “verb-framed” languages where the meaning of the verb comprises the component of the direction of the action. An attempt has been made to apply Talmy’s theory to a semantic group of English and Armenian verbs of speech activity choosing 80 English and 60 Armenian verbs which contain the semantic component of the manner of action. For a clearer picture 2000 sentences from the National British Corpus and 1500 sentences from Eastern Armenian corpus have been studied since the syntactic possibilities of verbs are largely conditioned by various combinations of the semantic components of the meaning of verbs.https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/arm-fol-angl/article/view/4561
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Lexicalization Patterns of English and Armenian Verbs of “Speech Activity”
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title Lexicalization Patterns of English and Armenian Verbs of “Speech Activity”
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title_fullStr Lexicalization Patterns of English and Armenian Verbs of “Speech Activity”
title_full_unstemmed Lexicalization Patterns of English and Armenian Verbs of “Speech Activity”
title_short Lexicalization Patterns of English and Armenian Verbs of “Speech Activity”
title_sort lexicalization patterns of english and armenian verbs of speech activity
url https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/arm-fol-angl/article/view/4561
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