Volume & Issue:
Volume 1, Issue 8, August 2019
Page No:
035-043
Abstract:
The paper aims toinvestigate how Vietnamese people express motion by using path verbs. This paper is conducted on the theory of lexicalization patterns which is related to the conflation of semantic components into linguistic units. The data are the expressions of motion verbs and spatial prepositions which were taken from 12 Vietnamese stories and three novels in the 20th century onward. The result of this paper presents several lexicalization patterns of semantic components conflated into the path verbs and the spatial prepositions. Moreover, this paper takes into account for construction grammar of lexical expressions of path motion in Vietnamese, which refers to speakers’ knowledge of motion utilized to express motion.
