Variation and Change in the Encoding of Motion Events -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Editors and contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Beyond typology -- 1. The typology of motion events -- 2. Re-examining the typology -- 2.1 Oversimplification of encoding types -- 2.2 Application of the typology to entire languages -- 2.3 Correlation between syntactic framing and the lexicon -- 2.4 Vagueness of the definition of "satellite" -- 2.5 Unjustified focus on motion-event clauses -- 3. The present volume -- 3.1 Variation -- 3.2 Change -- 4. Future explorations -- References -- Typology as a continuum: Intratypological evidence from English and Serbo-Croatian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Talmy's typology and subsequent developments -- 2.1 Introducing the typology -- 2.2 Rethinking the typology -- 3. Intratypological contrasts: English vs. Serbo-Croatian lexicalization patterns -- 3.1 Means for lexicalization in Serbo-Croatian -- 3.2 Situation types and intratypological variation -- 3.3 Features of the Serbo-Croatian pattern: The combinatory potential of prefixes -- 4. Further evidence: Translation and experimental data -- 5. Conclusion and future directions -- References -- Same family, different paths: Intratypological differences in three Romance languages -- 1. Motion and typology -- 2. Path salience in motion event lexicalization -- 3. Motion events and path in Romance languages -- 4. Path in three Romance languages -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Disentangling manner and path: Evidence from varieties of German and Romance -- 1. The standard theory of motion event encoding -- 2. Data and stimuli -- 3. Comparison of varieties -- 3.1 Path verbs -- 3.2 Manner verbs -- 3.3 Complex path descriptions and ground elements -- 3.4 Intermediate summary -- 4. Inferential statistics -- 5. Discussion -- References.

The encoding of motion events: Building typology bottom-up from text data in many languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Extracting marker complexes for the 'enter' domain -- 2.1 Marker complexes and what they are good for -- 2.2 'Enter' in parallel texts -- 3. Heterogeneity and general trends in motion event typology -- 4. Original texts in North America -- 5. Conclusions and outlook -- References -- Motion events in Turkish-German contact varieties -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Motion event typology -- 2.2 Motion events in second language acquisition -- 3. Turkish and German in contact situations: Case studies on Turkish-German bilinguals -- 3.1 Typological background -- 3.2 Motion events in written elicited narratives: Schroeder (2009) -- 3.3 Motion events in spoken elicited narratives (i): Daller et al.(2011) -- 3.4 Motion events in spoken elicited narratives (ii): Goschler (2009) -- 3.5 Motion events in informal conversation: Goschler et al. (under revision) -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Variation in the categorization of motion events by Danish, German, Turkish, and L2 Danish speakers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Review of literature -- 2.1 L1 lexicalization and categorization -- 2.2 L2 lexicalization and categorization -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Materials and procedures -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Motion verbs used by the informant groups -- 4.2 Categorical boundaries in the learner languages compared to Danish -- 4.3 The learners' task in restructuring the Danish L2 semantic categories -- 4.4 Reconstruction of meaning -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Describing motion events in Old and Modern French: Discourse effects of a typological change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method, data, and annotation -- 3. Motion descriptions in Old French texts -- 3.1 Motion verbs in OF -- 3.2 Path satellites in OF.

3.3 Combinations of motion verbs with Path satellites in OF -- 4. Motion descriptions in Modern French translations -- 4.1 Motion verbs in MF -- 4.2 Path satellites in MF -- 4.3 Combinations of motion verbs and Path satellites in MF -- 5. Translating Path from Old into Modern French -- 5.1 Choice of construction for the expression of Path -- 5.2 Segmentation of events into Path components -- 6. Effects of the typological change on the elaboration of Path -- 6.1 Degree of salience of Path -- 6.2 Degree of explicitness of Path -- 6.3 Focus of attention on the portions of Path -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Coding manual -- Dictionaries -- Medieval narratives and their translations into Modern French -- Lexical splits in the encoding of motion events from Archaic to Classical Greek -- 1. The encoding of motion: Generalized types and language-specific deviations -- 2. Case study: Ancient Greek verb classes -- 2.1 Toward a consistent satellite-framed type -- 2.2 Verbs of externally caused motion -- 2.3 Change-of-configuration verbs -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- Caused-motion verbs in the Middle English intransitive motion construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verbs in the intransitive motion construction in Middle English -- 2.1 Data -- 2.2 Middle English caused-motion verbs in the intransitive motion construction -- 3. Transitivity -- 4. Caused-motion and intransitive motion verbs: Similar patterns -- 4.1 Similar patterns I: Verb + reflexive -- 4.2 Similar patterns II: Be + past participle -- 4.3 A family of related constructions -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Variation and change in English path verbs and constructions: Usage pattern and conceptual structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Motion clause typology -- 2.2 Construction Grammar -- 2.3 More on motion clauses in English -- 3. Two empirical studies.

3.1 Study 1: The historical development of spatial and metaphorical [enter NP] and [enter INTO] -- 3.2 Study 2: Enter PPinto vs. enter NP in Indian English -- 4. General discussion -- References -- Appendix -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index.