Enhancing communication through an analysis of Sesotho motion verbs

Abstract

This article investigates motion verbs in Sesotho. It will seek to define these verbs, showing their relevance in enhancing communication through the markedness theory. Zhang and Tian (2015) proposes with markedness theory in the world’s languages that certain linguistic elements are more basic, natural, and unmarked than others, which are referred to as marked. This will advise looking closely at what other linguists are saying about them. This article aims to enhance communication. The motion verbs are discussed under four principal classes: acts, state, path, and motion. For this article, the latter class is important. Motion verbs in Sesotho exhibit meaning in different ways. In this study, the analysis of motion verbs of entity is conducted, looking to the applicability as well as their anomalousness, and trying to come up with correct alternatives, looking to the effect if an agent can change its position, and verifying the correctness of verbs and correcting the anomalous sentences. Verbs of being do entail in them verbs of being involving motion and the final type of motion verbs will be the verbs of sound existence, where the specific nouns are doing a specific action which cannot be transferred to other nouns. This article discusses motion verbs and how they behave, examines the verbs of entity, provides relevant examples, and discusses the verbs of sound existence.