The Difference and Motivation of the Semantic Conflation Patterns in Chinese and English Autonomous Motion Event Sentences: Path and Containers
In English, a single sentence can be formed with only one core verb, while in Chinese, a serial verb construction is required to encode elements that are semantically equivalent to the English core verb. In English, verbs that involve no horizontal/vertical path, such as swirl, or even verbs that la...
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2025-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in Chinese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2024-0003 |
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