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The function of manner adverbials in fictive motion expressions
Lipovšek, Frančiška
The paper presents a study on fictive motion (FM) expressions, linguistic manifestations of the conceptualization of stationary scenes in terms of motion (e.g. The road slowly climbs through fertile ...valleys and plantations). It focuses on the role of manner adverbials, building on the premise that since motion verbs in FM uses do not describe actual motion events, the manner adverbial utilized by an FM sentence cannot express the manner of motion but must refer to some correlated property of the stationary subject entity. This function of manner adverbials, together with their grammatical form, is examined on the basis of English FM sentences extracted from the British Web corpus (ukWaC) and featuring vertical motion verbs (e.g. climb) or complex-path-shape motion verbs (e.g. meander). The findings show that the adverbials are realized by adverbs in –ly and prepositional phrases and that their manner-related meanings, pertaining to the speed, intensity, geometry and style of motion, are metonymically mapped onto properties such as the gradient, shape, orientation and general appearance of the subject. The mappings are systematic and are explained on the basis of contingency relations between the path properties and the manner of motion that can be observed in the mentally simulated motion involved in the processing of FM sentences.
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