A Comparative Analysis of Locative and Directional Motion Events in English and Arabic

Zeddari, Ikbal

doi:10.5296/ijl.v8i4.9725

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“…In Persian and other languages, Motion verbs have been examined from different perspectives. In Persian, relevant research is found in Eslamipour and Sharafzadeh (2018), Rezaei and Diyanati (2017), Shahhoseini et al (2017), Akhavan et al (2017), Zeddari (2016), Mesgarkhooei (2014), Hamedi Shirvan and Sharifi (2013), Azkia (2012), Feizabadi and Pado (2012), Babai (2011), Golfam et al (2012) and Amouzadeh and Soltani (2011). In other languages, Verkerk (2015), Abdulrahim (2013), Lindesey (2011), Maalej (2011), Cifuentes-Ferez (2010 and Berthele (2004) are among the most outstanding works on motion verbs.…”

Section: Motion Event and Motion Verbsmentioning

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Motion Verbs in Persian and English: A Framenet-Based Contrastive Analysis

Imani

Naeini

2021

FU Ling Lit

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The current research aims at exploring and comparing the semantic frames of motion verbs in English and Persian. In pursuit of this goal, the novel Animal farm by G. Orwell (1945) was selected and compared with its Persian translation, Qale heyvanat (Atefi, 2010). The sentences including motion verbs were primarily extracted from the novel and then a comparison was made between each English sentence and its Persian counterpart. Afterwards, the semantic frames of the English and Persian motion verbs were obtained from the FrameNet database. It should be noted that when the motion verbs in English had an equivalent which could be interpreted in a different way in Persian, the Persian verb was searched for in one of the most reliable Persian to English dictionaries—Persian to English Dictionary (Aryanpur and Aryanpur, 2007). We searched for its English equivalent and then the newly obtained English verb was searched in FrameNet for the semantic frame. When comparing the semantic frames of the motion verbs in the two languages examined, we concluded that motion events in English and Persian were expressed through miscellaneous motion verbs each of which involves a semantic frame peculiar to it. Likewise, the frames may be similar or different cross-linguistically in case of semantic differences, or they might be pragmatically similar.

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Section: Motion Event and Motion Verbsmentioning

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Motion Verbs in Persian and English: A Framenet-Based Contrastive Analysis

Imani

Naeini

2021

FU Ling Lit

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“…Specificity is expressed by time adverbials. Relevant to the same function, fī preposition, referring to the place and time (Sibawayhi, 1988(Sibawayhi, [1975), and commonly known as a locative and temporal marker (Wright, 1996;Mehdi & Jaradat, 2021;Zeddari, 2016), strengthens the concrete signification.…”

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The Lexico-grammatical Ecology of Media Arabic Genre: A Multi-dimensional Analysis

Azennoud

2023

IJL

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Media Arabic is a linguistically independent genre of Modern Standard Arabic. There are a number of explanatory reasons accounting for a characterized, integrally structured media Arabic form. Much within our scientific grasp is the overall combination of lexico-grammatical traits, constituting a major part of the internal textual ecology. Within our reach, again, there is parsimonious literature hardly informing, or predicting, what situationally and linguistically a media Arabic text is. The vast body of research is intuition-governed and prescriptive. This paper is a concise exposition of a work endeavoring to fill out such a gap in research. It summarizes the findings of a large-scale project in Arabic corpus linguistics that empirically investigates media Arabic genre from a functional lexico-grammatical perspective, by using Multi-Dimensional framework. The model uncovers the parameters of variation in media Arabic and explores underlying co-occurring functions. In documenting MSA textual similarities and differences among ten written media subgenres: Politics, Economics, Society, Sports, Science, Culture & Arts, Technology, Women, Health & Medicine, and Religion, Exploratory Factor Analysis was run and resolved within a six-factorial structure, the raw output to be subsequently interpreted as six-dimensional basis for the variable use of Arabic across the ten subgenres.

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“…The work of Talmy and Slobin on motion events has motivated abundant research in different languages. Relevant Arabic research includes Saidi 2007;Al-Qarni 2010;Abdulrahim 2013;AlMurshidi 2013;Zeddari 2016;andAlhamdan, Alenazi, andMaalej 2018. Saidi (2007) studies motion events in Tunisian Arabic and concludes that it presents other strategies in the encoding of motion event other than those accounted for by Talmy's typology.…”

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“…On the other hand, Al-Qarni (2010) and AlMurshidi (2013) do not question Talmy's typology, both concluding that Arabic is dominantly V-framed although some S-framed patterns are also used. Abdulrahim's (2013) and Zeddari (2016) focus on more specific phenomena within the topic of motion events. Abdulrahim's (2013) corpus-based study is limited to seven Arabic GO and COME verbs, but offers a comprehensive and empirically grounded treatment of these verbs by examining the contextual features that typically associate with each verb in actual usage.…”

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“…Abdulrahim concludes that each of the seven verbs investigated appears to highlight a particular aspect of the conceptually complex deictic motion event. Zeddari (2016) focuses on prepositions involved in motion events in English and Arabic, arguing that while both languages have purely locative and directional prepositions, English has a class of ambiguous prepositions open to either interpretation.…”

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Attention to Manner of Motion in Arabic Novels: A Diachronic Study

Othman¹,

Alhailawani²

2023

IJAES

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The objective of this work is to conduct a corpus-based diachronic investigation of lexicalization patterns of motion events as well as attention to manner of motion in Arabic narrative writing. Motivated by the scarcity of research on Arabic motion events, this study aims to identify the main linguistic constructions used to express motion events in Arabic novels and more importantly to investigate whether a shift in manner of motion salience has taken place in the last hundred years. The study draws on Talmy’s framework of satellite-framed versus verb-framed typology of languages and makes use of two literary corpora. Main findings include the identification of six major constructions of motion events and show that while novelists in both time periods make use of similar linguistic constructions, there seems to be a significant shift towards more manner salience in contemporary Arabic novels. This increased attention is reflected in less use of the default manner-of-motion verb, walk, in favour of more expressive manner verbs, a stronger tendency to manner modification with walk and non-manner verbs, and a significantly heavier use of non-verbal modifiers.

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A Comparative Analysis of Locative and Directional Motion Events in English and Arabic

Cited by 3 publications

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Motion Verbs in Persian and English: A Framenet-Based Contrastive Analysis

Motion Verbs in Persian and English: A Framenet-Based Contrastive Analysis

The Lexico-grammatical Ecology of Media Arabic Genre: A Multi-dimensional Analysis

Attention to Manner of Motion in Arabic Novels: A Diachronic Study

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