TY - JFULL AU - Vasanta Duggirala and Y. Viswanatha Naidu PY - 2012/1/ TI - Cutting and Breaking Events in Telugu T2 - International Journal of Cognitive and Language Sciences SP - 3459 EP - 3467 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1157 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 72, 2012 N2 - This paper makes a contribution to the on-going debate on conceptualization and lexicalization of cutting and breaking (C&B) verbs by discussing data from Telugu, a language of India belonging to the Dravidian family. Five Telugu native speakers- verbalizations of agentive actions depicted in 43 short video-clips were analyzed. It was noted that verbalization of C&B events in Telugu requires formal units such as simple lexical verbs, explicator compound verbs, and other complex verb forms. The properties of the objects involved, the kind of instruments used, and the manner of action had differential influence on the lexicalization patterns. Further, it was noted that all the complex verb forms encode 'result' and 'cause' sub-events in that order. Due to the polysemy associated with some of the verb forms, our data does not support the straightforward bipartition of this semantic domain. ER -