Direction is a crucial part of movement and diverse grammatical/conceptual categories express directionality in languages. Cognitive Linguistics aims to provide rational description about linguistic phenomena and to formulate a theory based on the description. Research on language should include not only linguistic phenomena, but also so-called physical reality in which we live. Concept of movement is realized differently in languages and Russian verbs of motion (VoM) become a good example showing cultural specificity of Russian. Unprefixed Russian VoM are categorized by the manner of the motion and the path is expressed in the construction of VoM. Construction contains elements affecting the meaning of the whole construction such as definiteness of participant and types of transitivity, etc. It is necessary to consider all the contextual elements of a construction as well as the lexical meaning of VoM, and this paper illustrates the first step of investigating relationship of a semantic category. Semiotics is a useful instrument to analyze the given phenomenon of linguistic category. The sematic extension of a linguistic category can be explained by the idea of SEMIOSIS in language.
1. Введение
2. Анализ семантики глагола движения
3. Заключение
Библиография