Morphosyntax of Transitions

This book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of location or state, taking as a starting point Talmy''s typological generalization that classifies languages as either ''satellite-framed'' or ''verb-framed''. In verb-framed languages, such as those of the Romance family, the result state or location is encoded in the verb. In satellite-framed languages, such as English or Latin, the...