Verb Framing and Goal Encoding in Eastern Armenian

Student: Bagdasaryan Kristine

Educational Programme: Linguistic Theory and Language Description (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

Languages are considered to be verb-framed or satellite-framed depending on how the motion path is encoded (Talmy, 1985). Armenian is reckoned to be neither satellite-framed nor verb-framed language; it seems to be somewhere in between. Such combination of satellite-framed and verb-framed encoding strategies means that Armenian has verbs that have either path or manner incorporated in the verb roots. In our paper we are going to discuss the ability of the Eastern Armenian language to encode path component in the manner verb, and why it is problematic for defining the language in the existing terms.

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