SALIENCE AND ACCEPTABILITY IN SPANISH MANNER VERBS: A PRELIMINARY VIEW

It has been long noted that Spanish does not license the use of manner verbs when describing telic motion events, particularly when they involve boundary crossing (Aske, 1989; Slobin & Hoiting, 1994). The only exception to this constraint seems to be punctual acts, especially vertical bounda...

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Main Authors: Michele I. Feist, Ana Rojo, Paula Cifuentes Ferez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Murcia 2007-06-01
Series:International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
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Online Access:http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/48951