This crosslinguistic study of the structure of motion predicates argues                  for the universal syntactic nature of the composition of manner and motion within                  the verbal constituent. In serial verb languages, manner and motion are overtly                  represented as two distinct morphosyntactic units, sequentially ordered. Zubizarreta                  and Oh argue that the same analysis into two units holds for nonserial verb                  languages, albeit at a more abstract level. They argue further that this abstract                  level is part of the syntactic component of the grammar.The authors support their                  argument with a wealth of empirical data and a discussion of significant theoretical                  issues. Unlike many books and articles that discuss the relation between                  constructional meaning and the lexicon, On the Syntactic Composition of Manner and                  Motion examines one phenomenon in detail: the articulation of manner and motion, in                  three distinct language families--Germanic, Korean, and Romance. The authors'                  defense of the syntactic approach to constructional meaning will be of interest to                  linguists and psycholinguists both inside and outside the generative tradition, and                  to scholars of Romance, Germanic, and Korean languages.

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