The structure of motion event in Vietnamese
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Abstract
Leonard Talmy's binary motion event typology (1985, 2000), developed by Slobin (2004), has proposed a new approach to language from a cognitive-functional perspective. Similarities and differences in these investigations concentrate on the new data related to the way semantic components of motion events are encoded. The differences in the surface elements (linguistic forms) between languages lead to distinct classifications of the linguistic typology of motion events. Vietnamese displays a variety of motion-expressing structures. Vietnamese, as a highly serial verb language, is classified as an equipollently-framed language.