Any attempt to characterize valency patterns within and across languages confronts the
phenomenon of verb or valency classes: sets of semantically-related verbs sharing a range …

Talmy's (eg, 1985, 2000) seminal work has engendered a great deal of research and debate
in the literature on motion event descriptions over the last decades. Despite the vast amount …

The Moving Ego and Moving Time metaphors have provided a fertile testing ground for the
psychological reality of space–time metaphors. Despite this, little research has targeted the …

Typological studies on the linguistic expression of motion are certainly of interest to
translation scholars. The study of how motion is expressed across languages has indeed …

Lexical selection is a key process in any language-based communicative event, but in
translation it occurs in the semantic network activated by two languages. The question asked …

Motion and vision seem to be connected domains in, at least, two respects. Vision is a kind
of “fictive motion”(Talmy, 1996; 2000a), and both domains seem to appear in similar …

This study is based on the theoretical framework of conceptual transfer established by Jarvis
(1998, 2007) and on the typology of satellite-framed and verb-framed languages developed …

1. Introducción los límites de la organización alfabética del léxico han sido señalados una y
otra vez en las aproximaciones modernas a la lexicografía. la mayor parte de estas críticas …

This essay is the introduction to the Special Issue 'Events in language and mind: Theoretical
and empirical advances in the event integration theory'. We first review Leonard Talmy's …

Spanish constructions of telic motion with manner verbs are somewhat problematic for the
Talmian typology, while also posing a challenge for constructionist frameworks anchored in …