This chapter surveys accounts of systematic cross-linguistic differences in the distribution of
conceptual components across the constituents of clauses describing the same event …

This book explores possible and impossible word meanings, with a specific focus on the
meanings of verbs. It adopts the now common view that verb meanings consist at least partly …

We investigate the English verbs climb and cut, cited as counterexamples to manner/result
complementarity: the proposal that verbs lexicalize either manner or result meaning …

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 …

In this article we consider the nature of'result verbs', typically defined as verbs describing
scalar changes, which have played a significant role in the literature on verb typologies …

We propose that the well-known verb-framed/satellite-framed variation observed by Talmy
(,,) is a true syntactic parameter of a well-understood type: a head movement parameter. We …

This paper argues for two structural types of unaccusative constructions which systematically
differ in semantic and morphosyntactic properties. Evidence is presented from alternating …

A major challenge for event structural theories that decompose verbs into event templates
and roots relates to the syntactic distribution of roots and what types of event structures roots …

The debate over the relation between grammatically relevant (specifically, what we term
event referential) and idiosyncratic aspects of verb meaning has produced a considerable …

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GRAMMATICALLY RELEVANT ONTOLOGICAL CATEGORIES UNDERLIE MANNER/RESULT …