Motion and the English Verb
A Diachronic Study
Judith Huber
Reviews and Awards
"Huber's monograph is a welcome addition to the literature... Overall, the volume is a fine achievement and should stand as required reading for future studies" - Richard Ingham, Anglia
"readers will find it informative and helpful in many respects. Huber distinguishes her research with a systematic examination of various Old English dictionaries and reference books ... serves well as a useful resource for postgraduate students and researchers of general linguistics, linguistic typology, first and second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics and corpus linguistics." - Xinhua Yuan, Journal of Linguistics
"The merit of this excellent book lies not only in the detailed analysis of which verbs and which structures are typically used to express motion in Medieval English, but also, and especially, in the identification of the processes underlying the integration of uncommon strategies with the prevailing ones of a language ... an important reference point for subsequent studies on the phenomena of contact and variation in the research field of motion-event typology." - Claudio Iacobini, Language
"The volume [...] should stand as required reading for future studies of historical semantics, not least thanks to the clarity and thoroughness with which its methodology is set out" - Richard Ingham, Journal of English Philology