Search for: [Abstract = "The present paper analyzes English as a lingua franca \(ELF\) from the perspective of Talmy’s \(2000b\) typology, which divides languages into S\- and V\-types. S\-languages express the path of motion in a verb particle and the manner of motion in a verb, while V\-languages encode the path in a verb and manner in an adverbial. Talmy’s \(2000b\) typology has been felicitously applied in research on standard languages. However, studies on dialects \(Berthele 2004\) have shown that a division into S\- and V\-categories may not be sufficient in the case of contact languages. To test this hypothesis, we apply Talmy’s \(2000b\) typological distinction to English as a lingua franca. Based on the results of a qualitative pilot study among Polish users of English, we demonstrate that although Polish and English are both classified as S\-languages according to Talmy’s \(2000b\) typology, ELF – a contact language between them – reveals characteristics not yet classified as belonging to either S\- or V\-types. We thus conclude that Talmy’s \(2000b, 2017\) dichotomous distinction is in need of further refinements to be applicable in the context of ELF."]

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