The Morphosyntax of Transitions

This book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of location or state. It is based on the idea that languages encode information either on the verb or on a non-verbal element such as an affix or preposition. It focuses principally on Latin, with important comparisons drawn with other language families, particularly Slavic.

Victor Acedo-Matellán is currently a Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has a PhD from the Universitat de Barcelona and has held positions at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the Universidade do Minho, Braga. His research on verbal syntax and argument structure has been published in journals including Probus and Linguistic Analysis, and in edited volumes published by OUP and John Benjamins.

- General preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1: Introduction
- 2: A neo-constructionist perspective on argument structure
- 3: The syntax-morphology interface
- 4: Latin as a satellite-framed language
- 5: Weak satellite-framed languages
- 6: A revision of Talmy's typology
- 7: Challenges and proposals
- Appendix: Latin telic predicates with prefixed manner-of-motion verbs
- References
- Index