Abstract
The concept of motion is present in all the world’s languages. However, the ways in which speakers of different languages codify motion do not seem to be so universal. Languages offer different types of structures to express motion, and speakers pay attention to different elements within the motion event. The goal of this paper is to examine in great detail how motion events are described and expressed in Basque oral and written narratives. This study focuses on three main areas: motion verbs, elaboration of Manner and elaboration of Path. Although Basque can be classified in Talmy’s terms as a verb-framed language, it is argued that it is not a prototypical example of this group with respect to the lexicalisation of Path. Unlike other verb-framed languages, the description of Path in Basque motion events is very frequent and detailed, not only in situations when it adds new information, but also in pleonastic cases. This characteristic seems to be related to Basque’s rich lexical resources for motion and space, as well as to its high tolerance for verb omission. On the basis of these data, the scope of Talmy’s binary typology is questioned. It is suggested that the verb- and satellite-framed language typology should be revised in order to account for these intra-typological differences.
Funding statement: Funding: Financial support for the research presented in this paper has been provided by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2010-14903, FFI2013-45553-C3-1-P, MovEs project). I would also like to acknowledge the support and help I received from the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley (USA), the Institute of Human Development at University of California, Berkeley (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Special thanks to Hubert Cuyckens for his careful reading and useful comments.
Abbreviations
- 3
third person
- abl
ablative
- abs
absolutive
- adn
adpositional noun
- all
allative
- aux
auxiliary
- ben
benefactive
- com
comitative
- comp
complementiser
- cp
comparative
- det
determiner
- dir
directional allative
- erg
ergative
- evi
evidential
- fut
future
- gen
genitive
- ger
gerund
- goa
goal allative
- hab
habitual
- ide
ideophone
- ins
instrument
- loc
locative
- par
partitive
- pfv
perfective participle
- pl
plural
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Going beyond motion events typology: The case of Basque as a verb-framed language
- Let her rain, she’s snowing pretty good: The use of feminine pronouns with weather verbs in colloquial English
- On degrammaticalization: Controversial points and possible explanations
- The interaction of vowel quality and pharyngeals in Sephardic Modern Hebrew
- Preferences and variation in word-initial phonotactics: A multi-dimensional evaluation of German and Polish
- European analytic causatives as a comparative concept: Evidence from a parallel corpus of film subtitles
- The effect of L1 regional variation on the perception and production of standard L1 and L2 vowels
- Book Reviews
- Christopher S. Butler & Francisco Gonzálvez-García: Exploring functional-cognitive space
- Kate Beeching & Ulrich Detges: Functions at the left and right periphery: Crosslinguistic investigations of language use and language change
- Miguel A. Aijón Oliva & María José Serrano: Style in syntax: Investigating variation in Spanish pronoun subjects