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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Main Authors: Xu Xiaotong, Chen Mitian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2025-06-01
Series:Studies in Chinese Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2024-0003
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