Description
This work investigates how and to what extent the lexical-aspectual component conditions the morphosyntactical behaviour of verbs of motion, such as to go, to arrive, to come, to run, to swim, etc. It particularly focuses on marking the boundary that lies between two types of verbs of motion, those verbs that have an inherent sense of direction (to go, to arrive and to come, among others) and verbs that indicate the manner of motion (to dance, to run and to fly, among others). The comparison between these two groups allows the emphasis of the link that is established between the lexical-aspectual mechanisms and the constructions that derive from this type of verb. In this way it is demonstrated that verbs of inherent directionality have two basic features that are not found in verbs of manner of motion. On one hand, verbs that have an inherent sense of direction are characterized by a concrete aspectual delimitation in the space-time framework, while on the other hand they also display an important semantic deficit. All this results in verbs of inherent directionality being conducive to a context of "anomalous" marked stems.n
