Typology as a continuum
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Luna Filipović
Abstract
A number of significant intratypological differences emerge due to the processes that drive the lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian,namely morphological blocking and combinatory potential Filipović 2007a). These two morphosyntactic processes restrict the use of manner verbs and delimit both verb-prefix combinations and the combinability of prefixed manner verbs with path prepositions in motion expressions. As a result, the use of manner verbs is much more restricted in Serbo-Croatian than in English. In addition, the syntactic structure and the content of motion descriptions in Serbo-Croatian differ from the English pattern. The typology is best understood as a continuum, with the satellite-/verb-framed dichotomy being only one of the relevant typological dimensions in this context whose interaction is highlighted in this chapter.
Abstract
A number of significant intratypological differences emerge due to the processes that drive the lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian,namely morphological blocking and combinatory potential Filipović 2007a). These two morphosyntactic processes restrict the use of manner verbs and delimit both verb-prefix combinations and the combinability of prefixed manner verbs with path prepositions in motion expressions. As a result, the use of manner verbs is much more restricted in Serbo-Croatian than in English. In addition, the syntactic structure and the content of motion descriptions in Serbo-Croatian differ from the English pattern. The typology is best understood as a continuum, with the satellite-/verb-framed dichotomy being only one of the relevant typological dimensions in this context whose interaction is highlighted in this chapter.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Editors and contributors vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction: Beyond typology 1
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Part I. Variation
- Typology as a continuum 17
- Same family, different paths 39
- Disentangling manner and path 55
- The encoding of motion events 77
- Motion events in Turkish-German contact varieties 115
- Variation in the categorization of motion events by Danish, German, Turkish, and L2 Danish speakers 133
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Part II. Change
- Describing motion events in Old and Modern French 163
- Lexical splits in the encoding of motion events from Archaic to Classical Greek 185
- Caused-motion verbs in the Middle English intransitive motion construction 203
- Variation and change in English path verbs and constructions: Usage patterns and conceptual structure 223
- Author index 245
- Language index 247
- Subject index 249
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Editors and contributors vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction: Beyond typology 1
-
Part I. Variation
- Typology as a continuum 17
- Same family, different paths 39
- Disentangling manner and path 55
- The encoding of motion events 77
- Motion events in Turkish-German contact varieties 115
- Variation in the categorization of motion events by Danish, German, Turkish, and L2 Danish speakers 133
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Part II. Change
- Describing motion events in Old and Modern French 163
- Lexical splits in the encoding of motion events from Archaic to Classical Greek 185
- Caused-motion verbs in the Middle English intransitive motion construction 203
- Variation and change in English path verbs and constructions: Usage patterns and conceptual structure 223
- Author index 245
- Language index 247
- Subject index 249
