Motion events in English: the emergence and diachrony of manner salience from Old English to Late Modern English

Teresa Fanego

doi:10.1515/flih.2012.003

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Motion events in English: the emergence and diachrony of manner salience from Old English to Late Modern English

Teresa Fanego

Published/Copyright: October 31, 2012

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From the journal Folia Linguistica Historica Volume 46 Issue Historica-vol-33

English, a prototypical example of a Satellite-framed language (Talmy 1985, 2000), characteristically encodes manner of motion in the main verb and path in a satellite (John ran into the house). In this article I examine developments in the encoding of motion events from Old English to Late Modern English, in the light of Slobin’s (2004a) diachronic model for the emergence of manner salience; also discussed is the extent to which the shape and size of the English motion verb lexicon is a result of the specific properties of its morpholexical and morphosyntactic resources.

For generous financial support, I am grateful to the European Regional Development Fund and the following institutions: Autonomous Government of Galicia (Directorate General for Scientific and Technological Promotion, grant CN2011/011); Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants HUM2007-60706 and FFI2011-26693-C02-01). Thanks are also due to the editor and anonymous reviewers of FoLH for useful suggestions on an earlier version.

Published Online: 2012-10-31

Published in Print: 2012-10

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