Grammaticalization and innovation in the encoding of motion events
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5804960 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudio Iacobini (0000-0001-5479-7375, University of Salerno, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-4004 • E-ISSN: 1614-7308 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/flin.2012.013 |
| OpenAlex | W2323889782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The way in which major Romance languages prefer to encode motion events corresponds, in Talmy's terminology, to the Verb-framed type. Latin is classified as a Satellite-framed language, and hence the diachronic transition from Latin to Romance involves a typological change. This change has been reconstructed by Herslund (2005) as a chain of processes ordered on a three-stage evolutionary scale, from a low to a high level of grammaticalization. Current Romance languages are located at different positions on this scale, French being the only one to have reached the third stage. The article discusses Herslund's proposal on the ordering of Romance languages, arguing that both cross-linguistic comparisons of motion typology and the reasons for typological change should be considered at the level of particular linguistic constructions or that of particular event types, rather than as part of the language as a whole
Grammaticalization · Language change · Linguistic typology · Romance · Romance languages · Categorization, perception, and language · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
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| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |