Editor and contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Editor and contributors xi
4. Foreword. Past, present, and future of motion research 1
5. Introduction. Motion and semantic typology 13
6. Part I. Delving into motion event typology
7. Chapter 1. The typology of manner expressions 39
8. Chapter 2. Expressing and categorizing motion in French and English 61
9. Chapter 3. The functional nature of deictic verbs and the coding patterns of Deixis 95
10. Chapter 4. The importance of minority languages in motion event typology 123
11. Chapter 5. Latin to Ancient Italian motion constructions 151
12. Chapter 6. The early life of borrowed path verbs in English 177
13. Chapter 7. Non-actual motion in language and experience 205
14. Chapter 8. Metaphorical motion constructions across specialized genres 229
15. Part II. Expanding motion event typology
16. Chapter 9. Crossing the road or crossing the mind 257
17. Chapter 10. Thinking for speaking about motion in a second language 279
18. Chapter 11. Motion event contrasts in Romance languages 301
19. Chapter 12. Verb-framed, satellite-framed or in between? 329
20. Chapter 13. On the reception of translations 367
21. Chapter 14. Applying language typology 399
22. Afterword. Typologies and language use 419
23. Author index 447
24. Subject index 453
25. Language index 459