Cross-linguistic categorization of throwing events: A behavioral approach

• Main Authors: Wang, Haoshu, Gao, Helena Hong
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Event categorization; Verb semantics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85125; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43613
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Research on cross-linguistic categorization reveals that there were universal principles constraining the categorization of motion events across languages, and variations only distributed in a limited range. However, this finding has not been widely verified across languages and semantic domains. In...