Fictive Motion in Persian: Some Properties & Constraints
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Fictive motion is a fascinating mechanism in language through which a static scene is expressed in terms of motion. Persian is one of the languages in which fictive motion is pervasive. The current study aims at describing some properties and constraints of fictive motion construction in Persian. In doing so, first researchers have tried to elaborate possible distinctions between metaphorical motion sentences and fictive motion sentences of this language. The research data includes 98 fictive motion sentences collected from a number of Persian websites and weblogs. This investigation reveals that, in contrast to fictive motion sentences, metaphorical motion sentences are verbal representations of conceptual metaphors. Moreover, while fictive motion sentences are idiosyncratic, any metaphorical motion sentence is only one of the representations of an underlying conceptual metaphor. The study also discusses the constraints and effective factors in fictive motion constructions. The results obtained reveal that factors including number, direction of motion and agency of trajectory in a sentence are of crucial importance. Also, it seems that some fictive motion sentences in different directions could compose to describe only one static scene. Furthermore, the results show that just as in English, there may be a term denoted to time duration or distance in Persian fictive motion sentences. But, in contrast to English, there is not any limitation on the tense and the aspect of the sentence.
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Persian
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Research in Linguistics, Volume:9 Issue: 1, 2017
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35 to 52
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