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A Study on the Motion Events Expressed by “wang往DV” in the Bingzhou Cluster of Jin Dialect
- Authors: Yichen Guo
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Information:
School of Foreign Languages, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai
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Keywords:
Motion Events; Directional Verb; Jin Dialect
- Abstract: This study investigates the use of directional verbs in the structure of “wang 往 + localizer + verb” (“wang 往 DV”) in four districts in the Bingzhou Cluster of Jin Dialect. Based on Talmy’s theory of motion events, the syntactic features of “wang 往” and its subsequent directional verbs, as well as the components of the Path of each directional verb are analyzed. Compared with Mandarin, where only “hui 回” can be used as a localizer, in the Bingzhou cluster of Jin dialect, “jin 进, chu 出, qi 起, guo 过, hui 回, kai 开, zhu 住, and zhuan 转” can all express motion events through this structure, presenting richer components of Vector, Conformation, and Direction. Besides, the segmentation of motion events expressed by “wang 往DV” in the Bingzhou cluster is different from that in Mandarin.
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.35534/lin.0702014
- Cite: Guo, Y. C. (2025). A Study on the Motion Events Expressed by “wang 往DV” in the Bingzhou Cluster of Jin Dialect. Linguistics, 7(2), 139-149.
