Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors and contributors vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: Beyond typology 1
6. Part I. Variation
7. Typology as a continuum 17
8. Same family, different paths 39
9. Disentangling manner and path 55
10. The encoding of motion events 77
11. Motion events in Turkish-German contact varieties 115
12. Variation in the categorization of motion events by Danish, German, Turkish, and L2 Danish speakers 133
13. Part II. Change
14. Describing motion events in Old and Modern French 163
15. Lexical splits in the encoding of motion events from Archaic to Classical Greek 185
16. Caused-motion verbs in the Middle English intransitive motion construction 203
17. Variation and change in English path verbs and constructions: Usage patterns and conceptual structure 223
18. Author index 245
19. Language index 247
20. Subject index 249