Abstract

One of the difficulties in dealing with spatial concepts is that most languages distinguish formally between static location and motion or direction, but that they do not do so consistently. Sometimes the same form may have both a locative and directional sense; sometime there are distinct forms of each. This research tends to highlight a basic topic in grammar books, especially books that deal with usage and communicative grammar. It tries to collect the verbs that their meanings imply the concept of movement (motion). In English the verb is a word which (a) occurs as part of the predicate of a sentence (b) carries markers of grammatical categories such as tense, aspect, person, number and mood, and (c) refers to an action or state

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The article was added to IASJ on 2013-06-17

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