28.3941, Books: Motion and the English Verb: Huber

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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:04:40
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Motion and the English Verb: Huber

Title: Motion and the English Verb 
Subtitle: A Diachronic Study 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in the History of English  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/motion-and-the-english-verb-9780190657802 

Author: Judith Huber

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190657802 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 99.00

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     English, Middle (enm)
                     English, Old (ang)
                     French (fra)
                     Latin (lat)

Written In: English  (eng)

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