MOTION VERBS IN VIDAS SECAS
A FUNCTIONAL COGNITIVE ANALYSIS
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Movement, Radical Construction Grammar, Cognitive semanticsAbstract
The paper presents an analysis of motion verbs in the novel Vidas Secas, by Graciliano Ramos, based on Talmy's typology and a functional-cognitive model of grammatical constructions. It is proposed here the Motion Event Predication Construction, which covers a set of grammatical strategies that express motion events. A total of 87 movement verbs were found in the study. The results of the analysis show a preference for intransitive and subject-oblique as strategies. On a discursive level, there is a preference for the definite null instantiation construction (Fillmore, 1986). The results provide evidence for the relationship between cognition, grammar and text.
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