Agreement on Croak and Groan: Theory and Verification of Manner of Speaking Verbs in English
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Manner-of-Speaking verb research has stemmed from the need to verify the elaboration of Manner in verb roots in the conceptual frame of speaking. Manner is expressed differently depending on the typology of the language, when considering a satellite-framed language like English, much research has been dedicated to the frame of Motion, and less to that of Speaking. This paper proposes to verify entrenchment of Manner components in Manner-of-Speaking verbs for native English speakers. The verification process is conducted through a series of online questionnaires that ask respondents to identify Manner components for a series of Speaking verbs. The objective is to analyze a group of randomized verbs to confirm the psychological reality of Manner for each verb entry, to compare the results to our previous hypothesis, and to corroborate the clustering of the distinguishing components according to respondent judgment and agreement.
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Agreement on Croak and Groan: Theory and Verification of Manner of Speaking Verbs in English
In: Cognitive SemanticsSearch for other papers by Jodi L. Sandford in
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Manner-of-Speaking verb research has stemmed from the need to verify the elaboration of Manner in verb roots in the conceptual frame of speaking. Manner is expressed differently depending on the typology of the language, when considering a satellite-framed language like English, much research has been dedicated to the frame of Motion, and less to that of Speaking. This paper proposes to verify entrenchment of Manner components in Manner-of-Speaking verbs for native English speakers. The verification process is conducted through a series of online questionnaires that ask respondents to identify Manner components for a series of Speaking verbs. The objective is to analyze a group of randomized verbs to confirm the psychological reality of Manner for each verb entry, to compare the results to our previous hypothesis, and to corroborate the clustering of the distinguishing components according to respondent judgment and agreement.
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