Earlier work on literal motion has shown that English and Turkish belong to typologically distinct classes of languages, with English speakers paying greater linguistic attention to the manner dimension of motion events (e.g., Özçali?kan and Slobin 1999a, 2003)...
Keywords: motion events, metaphorical motion, verb-framed typology, satellite-framed typology, manner of motion
02/2005 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter