English-to-Hindi Mapping of Compositional Verb-Particle Constructions
Pursotam Kumar,
Anil Kumar Thakur
Abstract:The present study investigates the semantic correspondence in the Hindi translation equivalents of compositional English verb-particle constructions (EVPCs) with the particle up. The compositional constructions include the directional and aspectual functions of particles. The study concentrates on the semantic representation of literal spatial directional and aspectual completive functions of the particle up in Hindi, a major Indian language. The researchers selected some frequent EVPCs, took examples from th… Show more
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