FEATURES OF MOTION VERBS

Motion verbs and semantic features in TAG

We show how the domain of locality in a TAG elementary tree, (Frank 1992), can be extended through adjunction to include optional arguments for a dass of motion verbs and how the adjunctions can be restricted appropriately through the use of semantic features. Same examples of motion verbs we consider are shown in Table 1, which categorizes the verbs according to Levin classes (Levin 1993). Not...

Semantics of motion verbs

Motion verbs in languages convey the meanings of spatiotemporal change. Ontologies that deal with spatial actions can benefit from the study of such verbs and their usage. This paper explores semantic components of motion related verbs and verb complexes. Such semantics components assume certain spatial primitives and intuitions which need to be considered in the context of ontologies derived f...

Motion Verbs and Vision

-In the present paper we aim at the use of the analysis of the definitions of the Motion Verbs for the application to the understanding and description of action sequences such as those recorded in a video. The main points of computer processing of verbs of motion involve that the definitions are given as input to a system that produces an output that gives a grouping of the verbs and synthesiz...

How motion verbs are spatial: the spatial foundations of intransitive motion verbs in French

Serial Verbs and Serial Motion

1 How many events? A key observation about serial verb constructions (SVCs) is that they express a single, perhaps complex, event rather than a series of distinct events a single serial verb complex describes what is conceptualized as a single event: this is repeatedly reported to be a clear intuition of native speakers, and can be demonstrated through semantic analysis. It follows that a seria...