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Pavlenko, Aneta; Volynsky, Maria – Modern Language Journal, 2015
The aim of the present study is twofold. One, we will show that Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) motion typology that groups Russian and English together as satellite-framed languages may be justified on linguistic grounds but is inadequate from a psycholinguistic point of view. Two, we will argue that the shortcomings of the typology may account…
Descriptors: Motion, Russian, English, English (Second Language)
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Pavlenko, Aneta; Driagina, Viktoria – Modern Language Journal, 2007
This study compared the uses of emotion vocabulary in narratives elicited from monolingual speakers of Russian and English and advanced American learners of Russian. Monolingual speakers differed significantly in the distribution of emotion terms across morphosyntactic categories: English speakers favored an adjectival pattern of emotion…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Russian, Native Speakers