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

• Teresa Fanego ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

     Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

     Santiago de Compostela, España

     
• Localización: Folia lingüística histórica, ISSN 0168-647X, Vol. 33, Nº 1, 2012, págs. 29-86
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.