This paper deals with certain aspects of syntax-sensitivity in manner of locomotion verbs in English. Verbs of manner of locomotion do not behave uniformly, in spite of their allegedly identical conceptual status. The paper demonstrates that differences between manner of locomotion verbs are not merely a matter of perceptual domain but manifest themselves at a conceptual level. Related to this is the fact that semantic distinctions among manner of locomotion verbs result in differences in their syntactic behaviour (distinctions induced by diathesis alternations thus help to provide insights into verbal meaning). What also plays a role in determining the types of verbs admitted into certain types of syntactic constructions are the types of event structuration encoded in the constructions themselves. An account of the syntactic behaviour of manner of locomotion verbs must also appeal to encyclopaedic knowledge (the knowledge of the situational background in which the movement is set).
On the Principled Connections between the Semantic Structure of Verbs of Locomotion in English and Their Syntactic Behaviour
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