Verbs of motion shkoj ‘go’ and vij ‘come’ in
Albanian: A corpus study
DOI:10.30842/alp2306573716206
Klimenok K. S. Glagoly dvizheniya shkoj
‘idti’ i vij ‘prikhodit’ v albanskom yazyke: korpusnoye
issledovaniye. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 2020.
XVI(2): 127–159.
The paper examines the lexical semantics and the patterns of
encoding the goal and source of motion with the main Albanian
motion verbs, shkoj ‘go’ and vij ‘come’. The
research was based on the Albanian National Corpus (ANC) using
approaches applied in linguistic typology and in works on the
grammatical and lexical semantics of motion verbs.
The verbs shkoj and vij are analyzed in terms
of their orientation on the goal or source of motion
(goal-oriented, source-oriented) and with the consideration of the
general typological tendency to explicitly fill the goal valency,
known as goal-bias. The ways of filling in the goal and source
valencies of these verbs are considered both in combinations with
prepositional constructions expressing the different components of
path (in particular, with the most frequent spatial prepositions of
the Albanian language: nga ‘from; to’, te(k)
‘to’, and në ‘in’) and in constructions without the
corresponding arguments at the surface level. Special attention is
paid to the constructions with the verbs
shkoj / vij and the preposition nga,
which can encode both the goal and the source of motion (source /
goal ambuguity). In this part of the study, the use of the verbs
shkoj and vij is described considering the
position of the speaker / observer in the situation.
Keywords
Albanian language, corpus study, motion verbs,
lexical semantics, argument structure, goal, source, valency,
interpretation mode
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Keywords
Albanian language, corpus study, motion verbs,
lexical semantics, argument structure, goal, source, valency,
interpretation mode
