Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events

Abstract

1. Editors and contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction: Beyond typology: The encoding of motion events across time and varieties (by Goschler, Juliana) 4. Part I. Variation 5. Typology as a continuum: Intratypological evidence from English and Serbo-Croatian (by Filipovic, Luna) 6. Same family, different paths: Intratypological differences in three Romance languages (by Hijazo-Gascon, Alberto) 7. Disentangling manner and path: Evidence from varieties of German and Romance (by Berthele, Raphael) 8. The encoding of motion events: Building typology bottom-up from text data in many languages (by Walchli, Bernhard) 9. Motion events in Turkish-German contact varieties (by Goschler, Juliana) 10. Variation in the categorization of motion events by Danish, German, Turkish, and L2 Danish speakers (by Jessen, Moiken) 11. Part II. Change 12. Describing motion events in Old and Modern French: Discourse effects of a typological change (by Kopecka, Anetta) 13. Lexical splits in the encoding of motion events from Archaic to Classical Greek (by Nikitina, Tatiana) 14. Caused-motion verbs in the Middle English intransitive motion construction (by Huber, Judith) 15. Variation and change in English path verbs and constructions: Usage patterns and conceptual structure (by Stefanowitsch, Anatol) 16. Author index 17. Language index 18. Subject index