Abstract
The paper investigates the use of manner verbs (e.g. marcher ‘to walk’, courir ‘to run’) withso-called locative prepositions (e.g. dans ‘in’, sous ‘under’) in the descriptions of motion in French, as in Il a couru dans le bureau ‘He ran in (to) the office’, to explore the type of events such constructions express and the factors that influence their interpretation. Basedon an extensive corpus survey, the study shows that, contrary to the general claim according to which such constructions express typically motion in some location, they arealso frequently used to express change of location. The study discusses the interplay of various factors that contribute to the interpretation of these constructions, including semantic, as pectual and pragmatic factors.
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