Czech Verbs of Motion and Cumulativity

• Authors: Mojmír Dočekal
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper describes the semantics of Czech verbs of motion. It examines predictions of the event-based accounts of plurality in the verbal domain (Krifka 1992; Kratzer 2005; van Geenhoven 2004) and applies it to Czech data. It connects morphological processes with the cumulativity and generic operators in semantics.

Keywords

EN

verbs of motion; formal semantics; events; cumulativity; genericity

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 303-318

Dates

published

2008-09-01

online

2008-10-24

Contributors

author

Mojmír Dočekal

• Masaryk University, Brno

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10010-008-0015-x