ABSTRACT
Motion events are situations “containing movement or maintenance of a stationary location” which are analysable into a set of semantic components (Talmy 1985:85). Depending on the different lexicalization patterns that languages use in order to package these components into linguistic forms, Talmy has typologically divided languages into two main broad groups: satellite-framed and verb-framed languages (Talmy 1985, 1991, 2000a, 2000b). The former usually provide speakers with a set of locative particles, so-called satellites, which encode the core schema, i.e., the Path (change of location); the latter supply speakers with a set of different verbs for each change of location. Slobin (1987, 1996a, 1996b, 1997a, 2000) has taken this typology one step further and has proposed a modified form of linguistic relativity in the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis - the fact that specific language effects can be demonstrated in the on-line use of language.
