Abstract
According to Talmy's semantic typology, Romance languages are classified as verb-framed. is group of languages lexicalizes Path information in the main verb, whereas Manner information, if expressed at all, is usually codified in linguistic elements outside the main verb. Based on a detailed study on oral data from motion events in three Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, and French in contrast with a Germanic language: German), this paper explores the existence of intratypological variation in the description of motion events in these languages. Results show that the three languages behave similarly with respect to the Manner component, but that there is intratypological variation as far as the Path component is concerned. Italian can be considered as a high-path salient language, since it is significantly different from Spanish and French.
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