Talking about Motion
：A crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns
( Studies in Language Companion Series )
Publication subTitle ：A crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns
Publication series ： Studies in Language Companion Series
Author： Luna Filipović
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2007
E-ISBN: 9789027291226
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027231017
Subject： H04 grammar
Language： ENG
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Description
In this book Luna Filipovic presents a very interesting and well-written study. The detailed presentation of the motion verb system in a Slavonic language and the placing of Serbo-Croatian between Romance and Germanic languages in a continuum of verb- and satellite-framed languages is an important contribution to the typology of European languages, even if it is obvious after the publication of Levinson and Wilkins (2006) that Talmy's typology does not apply to a worldwide sample of languages. The book provides a more fine-grained analysis of the lexicalization patterns than those found in many of the earlier studies of motion verbs in European languages. The demonstration that the importance of the linguistic levels is radically different in English and Serbo-Croatian is very clear and represents an original perspective on the contrastive comparison of two languages.