Analysis of Expressions with Movement Verbs in Function of Lexical Economy and Redundancy: English-Spanish Contrastive Study

Abstract

This text constitutes a contrastive analysis of lexical economy and redundancy in verbal expressions. For this purpose, a bilateral study of the diacritical examples is carried out in two selected languages: English and Spanish. The analysis is based on a manual parallel corpus, which consists of verbal expressions collected in two versions of the same narrative literature text: A moveable feast / París era una fiesta by Ernest Hemingway. Our task is, above all, to compare the numerical data obtained after the census with the theories elaborated by the typological tradition. Taking into account the defining parameters of the phenomenon of economy, we establish its scale based on the empirical analysis of expressions with movement verb — one of the fundamental verb classes. These references lead us to the conclusion which language of the two listed above is more economic and which is more redundant in the lexical perspective.