Abstract

The deictic motion verbs have been broadly investigated in the literature (e.g., Fillmore, 1997; Lien, 1997; Oshima, 2006; Shen, 1996; Tang, 1979, etc.). However, many of them discuss the deictic motion verbs within one language (e.g., Fillmore, 1997) and some crosslinguistically compare the locomotive sentence patterns (e.g., Arakawa, 1996). This paper extends the locomotive sentence patterns across languages: Taiwanese, Mandarin, Japanese and English, trying to build up a crosslinguistic database. The interaction between semantics and syntactic representations in VP, AP and IP will be the main concern. By examining the corpus, this paper finds that there are certain rules in locomotive terms in the co-occurrence, implication for the hidden element and substitution. Among those four languages, Taiwanese is strictest with the collocation of deictic motional terms. Also, the compared locomotive sentence patterns are mathematically shown.

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