The Difference and Motivation of the Semantic Conflation Patterns in Chinese and English Autonomous Motion Event Sentences: Path and Containers
Published Online: May 02, 2025
Page range: 55 - 74
Received: Sep 20, 2023
Accepted: Oct 16, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2024-0003
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In English, a single sentence can be formed with only one core verb, while in Chinese, a serial verb construction is required to encode elements that are semantically equivalent to the English core verb. In English, verbs that involve no horizontal/vertical path, such as