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Danish Motion Verbs: Syntactic Alternations and the Hypothesis of Semantic Determination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

Bolette Sanford Pederson
Bolette Sanford Pederson
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Center for Sprogteknologi, Københavns Universitet, Njalsgade 80, 2300 S, Denmark. Email: bolette@cst.ku.dk
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Danish motion verbs provide a good candidate for testing the hypothesis of semantic determination on Danish, a hypothesis most recently discussed by Levin (1993) in her description of English verb classes and alternations. A set of core meaning components for motion verbs is identified and a taxonomy of Danish motion verbs is produced. With the basic assumption that a word's meaning determines its syntactic potential, this paper gives an account of the syntactic alternations that Danish motion verbs can undergo, and exposes a more or less transparent relation between their syntax and semantics.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , June 1997 , pp. 65 - 90
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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