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Path and manner of movement are generally taken to be the core distinguishing features in descriptions of motion events. It is proposed here that this two-dimensional characterization of the lexical semantics of motion verbs needs to be reconsidered. We introduce a new research method, the cross-linguistic dictionary-lookup analysis, by means of which additional meaning dimensions can be identified for motion verbs in Dutch, English and German.
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Lestrade, S., Reshöft, N. (2012). Towards a Revision of the Typology of Motion Verbs. In: Stachniss, C., Schill, K., Uttal, D. (eds) Spatial Cognition VIII. Spatial Cognition 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7463. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32732-2_16
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