Chapter published in:
Broader Perspectives on Motion Event DescriptionsEdited by Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi
[Human Cognitive Processing 69] 2020
► pp. 105–140
Syntactic and semantic structures of Thai motion expressions
Kiyoko Takahashi | Kanda University of International Studies
Thai expressions for a single motion event
usually take the form of a single clause that is typically composed
of serial verb phrases encoding sub-events (semantic components) of
the motion event. The present chapter aims to show that the
syntactic and semantic structures of such expressions can be
adequately formulated based on the ‘force-dynamic’ structures (cf.
Talmy 1988, 2000a) of motion events and
‘aspectual’ types (cf. Vendler
1967) of motion verbs. The event structures and verb
types that are relevant to the syntactic patterns of the expressions
reflect Thai speakers’ conventional construals for expressing motion
events in the Thai language.
Keywords: aspectual types, event structures, serial verbs
Published online: 11 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.69.04tak
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.69.04tak
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