The Delineation of ‘Throw’ Verbs in Mandarin Chinese: Behavioural and Perceptual Approaches

• Main Authors: Gao, Helena Hong, Wang, Haoshu, Nicoladis, Elena
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Cognitive Semantics; Mental Representation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89185; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44809
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Within a semantic domain, terms that can be used in a similar way to describe a similar event are members of the same class of words, or near-synonyms. They are common in a language but difficult to distinguish from one and another. Physical action verbs such as ‘throw’ verbs are a typical example o...