DIRECTIONAL VERB SATELLITES IN THE KET LANGUAGE AND L. TALMY’S TYPOLOGIES OF LEXICALIZATION PATTERNS

Butorin Sergey Sergeyevich

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The paper presents the results of the analysis of the morphosyntactic components expressing the Path semantic component in the translational motion event which are referred to as directional verbal satellites following L. Talmy’s typology. The attempt has been made to characterize the Ket language using Talmy’s typologies of lexicalization patterns, as well as D. Slobin’s typology of the expression of motion events. The conclusion has been drawn that Ket belongs to satellite-framed languages (in L. Talmy’s typology), and to high-path-salient but low-manner-salient languages (in D. Slobin’s typology); the verb root characteristically does not confl ate the semantic components, but expresses only the Motion component.

Keywords: Ket language, locative situation of translational motion, directional verb satellites, L. Talmy’s typologies of lexicalization patterns, satellite-framed languages, D. Slobin’s typology of motion events

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Issue: 1, 2012

Pages: 33 — 37

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