Verbs of Movement

One of the difficulties in dealing with spatial concepts is that most languages distinguish formally between static location and motion or direction, but that they do not do so consistently. Sometimes the same form may have both a locative and directional sense; sometime there are distinct forms of each (Wilkins, 1983; 33). This research tends to highlight a basic topic in grammar books, especially books that deal with usage and communicative grammar. It tries to collect the verbs that their meanings imply the concept of movement (motion). In English the verb is a word which (a) occurs as part of the predicate of a sentence (b) carries markers of grammatical categories such as tense, aspect, person, number and mood, and (c) refers to an action or state (Richards and Schmidt, 2002; 511). Movement means an act of moving from one place to another or of moving sth from one place to another (Wehmmeirer, 2004; 833). This research consists of two sections: the first study the important rules of verbs of movement and the second contains fifty verbs of motion and their meanings. The last page involves the most important conclusions of investigating this topic. Section One 1. 1 Verbs of Motion(Syntactically) This section shows the important rules that relate the use of verbs of movement. Quirk et al (1973; 152) state: All prepositions which follow these verbs have motional meaning can also have a static resultative meaning indicating the state of having reached the destination e.g. I managed to get {over the fence/ across the river} (i.e. so that I was then on the other side