Path and Manner: An Image-Schematic Approach to Russian Verbs of Motion

@article{Nesset2008PathAM,
  title={Path and Manner: An Image-Schematic Approach to Russian Verbs of Motion},
  author={Tore Nesset},
  journal={Scando-Slavica},
  year={2008},
  volume={54},
  pages={135 - 158},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:123427088}
}
  • T. Nesset
  • Published 1 October 2008
  • Linguistics
  • Scando-Slavica
Russian is notorious for its complex system of motion verbs. In this paper, I will analyze the Russian verbs of motion in terms of the image schemas PATH and MANNER, focusing on the following… 
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