ABSTRACT
It has become almost impossible to consider motion-event descriptions, especially from a typological perspective, without starting from the seminal work of Talmy (1985, 1991, 2000), and its application to narrative and to the issue of linguistic relativity by Slobin (1996a, 1997a, 1997b, 2000), as also testified by many of the contributions to this volume (cf. Galvan & Taub, Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Brown, Ragnarsdóttir & Strömqvist, Bavin, and Wilkins).
