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Classroom:NTNU, LING1113 (2009) - Motion and Space

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Definitions

Spatial concepts

Locations

Topological locations

Coincidence

Interiority

Exteriority

Bilen holder uden for huset.
“The car stands outside the house. The car is parked outside the house.”
Bilen
bilen
carSBJtheDEFSG
N
holder
holder
holdPRES
Vitr
uden
uden
out-
PREP
for
for
of
PREP
huset
huset
houseOBLtheDEFSG
N



Projective locations

Inferiority

Superiority

Anteriority

Posteriority

Laterality

Deixis

Reference point

Remoteness

Direction


Events

Motion

Theme/Figure

Source

Goal

Location

Path

Figure

Ground

Trajectory

Conveyance

Manner

Cause

Prepositions

av

bak

blant

etter

for

fra

gjennom

hos

i

ifølge

innen

innenfor

med

mellom

mot

om

omkring

ovenfor

overfor

rundt

til

under

ved hjelp av

på grunn av

Something is rotten in the state of Norwegian Prepositions. Check-check-check it out!

Examples:

'På fest', 'på byen', 'på bussen', 'på reisefot', 'på gang', 'på flaska', 'på tur', 'på shopping' etc

There are also many situations that can be described by several prepositions, but have small differences in semantic nuances.

Examples:

'I byen' vs. 'På byen'

'I fjellet' vs. 'På fjellet'

'På bussen' vs. 'I bussen'


while some have completely different meanings

Examples:

I flaska
“In the bottle”
I
i
In
PREP
flaska
flaska
bottleDEFSGFEM
N

vs.

På flaska
“Drinking heavily”
At
PREP
flaska
flaska
bottleDEFSGFEM
N


Bevegelsesverb

English - Motion verbs

This category of verbs denote movement, and these movements can be divided into subcategories.

In order to denote movement, we can use either a movement verb or a verb with a preposition. The latter is another story, and you can read about it in the page called 'Preposisjoner'. The scope of the 'Bevegelsesverb' page is to describe verbs denoting -by themselves - some kind of movement.

The following paragraphs suggest how we can divide motion verbs into subcategories:

- The movement can be done voluntarily or nonvoluntarily by the subject of the Pn-S.

- Does the movement denoted have a goal, a path or both? Or is the movement taking place a a spot?

- Come up with more as you desire...