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Motion and the English Verb - A Diachronic Study (Hardcover)
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Motion and the English Verb - A Diachronic Study (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in the History of English
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In Motion and the English Verb, a study of the expression of motion
in medieval English, Judith Huber provides extensive inventories of
verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle
English, and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of
early English. Huber demonstrates how several non-motion verbs
receive contextual motion meanings through their use in the
intransitive motion construction. In addition, she analyzes which
verbs and structures are employed most frequently in talking about
motion in select Old and Middle English texts, demonstrating that
while satellite-framing is stable, the extent of manner-conflation
is influenced by text type and style. Huber further investigates
how in the intertypological contact with medieval French, a range
of French path verbs (entrer, issir, descendre, etc.) were
incorporated into Middle English, in whose system of motion
encoding they are semantically unusual. Their integration into
Middle English is studied in an innovative approach which analyzes
their usage contexts in autonomous Middle English texts as opposed
to translations from French and Latin. Huber explains how these
verbs were initially borrowed not for expressing general literal
motion, but in more specific, often metaphorical and abstract
contexts. Her study is a diachronic contribution to the typology of
motion encoding, and advances research on the process of borrowing
and loanword integration.
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