Motion Event in Japanese language and Vienamese Language (Typology of Path Motion in Vietnamese and Japanese Language)

Abstract

This article is concerned with motion event in Japanese language and Vietnamese language from the viewpoint of path motion, and the comparison between Japanese postpositions (kakujoshi) and Vietnamese prepositions. There has been discussion on motion events based on Talmy’s two-way typology: satellite-framed (SFL) languages and verb-framed languages (VFL). Several important issues have been discussed in the literature, and the question of whether manner and path are complementary or not is a controversial one in lexical semantics. This paper consists of a classification of motion verbs in Japanese and Vietnamese, an analysis of paths, manner in motion events between Japanese and Vietnamese language.