This chapter investigates the expression of motion events in Polish (a satellite-framed language) and examines the semantic granularity of Manner in the descriptions of motion in written prose. It shows that despite its typological similarity to English in encoding Manner in the main verb and Path in a satellite Polish does not exploit its satellite-framed pattern as productively as English. The types of fine-grained Manner components that Polish lexicalizes in the verb (e.g., velocity, motor pattern, attitude, etc.) are less diverse than those found in English (cf., Slobin 2004a, 2004b, 2006) and the lexical repertoire of Manner verbs is smaller. Furthermore, although many Manner verbs can combine freely with Path satellites, and occur in directed motion constructions, for some of them such combinations are much more restricted. Therefore, to elaborate the expression of Manner, Polish relies heavily on modifying expressions and tend to distribute Manner information across the sentence between the main verb and a subordinate clause or some adverbial expression.
2024. Another member out of the family: the description of manner of gait in Changana verbs of motion. Folia Linguistica 58:2 ► pp. 401 ff.
Lewandowski, Wojciech & Şeyda Özçalışkan
2023.
Running across the mind or across the park: does speech about physical and metaphorical motion go hand in hand?. Cognitive Linguistics 34:3-4 ► pp. 411 ff.
Lewandowski, Wojciech & Şeyda Özçalışkan
2024.
Translating Motion Events Across Physical and Metaphorical Spaces in Structurally Similar
Versus
Structurally Different Languages
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Stern, Dieter
2023. Konjunkte Partizipien in der Erzählung des Einsiedlers Abraham und seiner Nichte Maria — Ein Beitrag zur narrativen Syntax des Kirchenslavischen. Zeitschrift für Slawistik 68:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Taremaa, Piia & Anetta Kopecka
2023. Speed and space: semantic asymmetries in motion descriptions in Estonian. Cognitive Linguistics 34:1 ► pp. 35 ff.
2021. The poverty of manner categories in motion verbs coding vertical relations. Evidence from Polish and Russian. Russian Linguistics 45:1 ► pp. 93 ff.
2021. Variable motion event encoding within languages and language types: a usage-based perspective. Language and Cognition 13:1 ► pp. 34 ff.
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