This paper researches the semantic meaning of manner in English metaphorical motion events (MMEs) qualitatively and quantitatively with the assistance of corpus. The discovery is made that the expressions of the semantic meaning of manner in mental states and emotional states exceed the other four target domains. In each target domain, manner verbs out numbers path verbs in types and quantities. The mechanism of manner verbs in English MMEs is expressed in V [manner], and V [manner] Sat [path].
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Wang, S. (2021). On Semantic Meaning of Manner in English Metaphorical Motion Events Based on Corpus. Open Access Library Journal, 8, e07781. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1107781.
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