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<p>The paper deals with selected problems of the verbalization of the concepts “place”, “space” and “direction”, with a special consideration of their successive development in language and in language acquisition. The theoretical background are assumptions concerning the genesis of the concept of place and movement. Some of them claim that movement and direction precede the conceptualization of place and space. However, numerous linguistic phenomena seem to prove the opposite hypothesis, namely that the concept of place and, thus, its verbalization by means of stative verbs, local adverbs and prepositional phrases is original, whereas the concepts of movement, especially of controlled, caused movement denoted by transitive, regular verbs is derived from the concept of locum encoded by irregular verbs.</p>
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The paper deals with selected problems of the verbalization of the concepts “place”, “space” and “direction”, with a special consideration of their successive development in language and in language acquisition. The theoretical background are assumptions concerning the genesis of the concept of place and movement. Some of them claim that movement and direction precede the conceptualization of place and space. However, numerous linguistic phenomena seem to prove the opposite hypothesis, namely that the concept of place and, thus, its verbalization by means of stative verbs, local adverbs and prepositional phrases is original, whereas the concepts of movement, especially of controlled, caused movement denoted by transitive, regular verbs is derived from the concept of locum encoded by irregular verbs.

On the Verbalization of Space and Direction Concepts

Gestalt Theory

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The paper deals with selected problems of the verbalization of the concepts “place”, “space” and “direction”, with a special consideration of their successive...

On the Verbalization of Space and Direction Concepts

Published Online: Apr 24, 2020

Page range: 5 - 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gth-2020-0002

Keywords
Concept, verbalization, place, movement

© 2020 Michail L. Kotin, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

On the Verbalization of Space and Direction Concepts

Published Online: Apr 24, 2020

Page range: 5 - 15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gth-2020-0002

KeywordsConcept, verbalization, place, movement

© 2020 Michail L. Kotin, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Concept, verbalization, place, movement