Verbs of Bending and Leaning in a Typological Perspective

Student: Klimenko Svetlana

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The goal of the present research is to describe verbs of bending and leaning cross-linguistically. Although lexical typology is a popular scientific field, there is no research on verbs of this semantic field. The main goal is to discover semantic features that explain the ways of lexicalization of this field in different languages and describe the typological differences. They can serve as a reference point for further typological researches of verbs. The secondary goal is to find prototypical semantic situations described with these verbs (so-called frames) and to create semantic maps as visual explanation to what extent can languages differ their categorization. Results can help lexicographer and language teacher to develop material on pragmatic usage of verbs of bending and leaning which consider the difference between languages.

Student Theses at HSE must be completed in accordance with the University Rules and regulations specified by each educational programme.

Summaries of all theses must be published and made freely available on the HSE website.

The full text of a thesis can be published in open access on the HSE website only if the authoring student (copyright holder) agrees, or, if the thesis was written by a team of students, if all the co-authors (copyright holders) agree. After a thesis is published on the HSE website, it obtains the status of an online publication.

Student theses are objects of copyright and their use is subject to limitations in accordance with the Russian Federation’s law on intellectual property.

In the event that a thesis is quoted or otherwise used, reference to the author’s name and the source of quotation is required.

Search all student theses