@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/dia.32.1.03ver, author = "Verkerk, Annemarie", title = "Where do all the motion verbs come from?: The speed of development of manner verbs and path verbs in Indo-European", journal= "Diachronica", year = "2015", volume = "32", number = "1", pages = "69-104", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.32.1.03ver", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/dia.32.1.03ver", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0176-4225", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "motion events", keywords = "rate of evolutionary change", keywords = "path verbs", keywords = "etymology", keywords = "Indo-European", keywords = "phylogenetic comparative methods", keywords = "manner verbs", abstract = "The last four decades have seen huge progress in the description and analysis of cross-linguistic diversity in the encoding of motion (Talmy 1985, 1991, Slobin 1996, 2004). Comparisons between satellite-framed and verb-framed languages suggest that satellite-framed languages typically have a larger manner of motion verb lexicon (swim, dash), while verb-framed languages typically have a larger path of motion verb lexicon (enter, cross) (Slobin 2004, Verkerk 2013, 2014b). This paper investigates how differences between the motion verb lexicons of satellite-framed and verb-framed languages emerge. Phylogenetic comparative methods adopted from biology and an etymological study are used to investigate manner verb lexicons and path verb lexicons in an Indo-European dataset. I show that manner verbs and path verbs typically have different types of etymological origins and that manner verbs emerge faster in satellite-framed subgroups, while path verbs emerge faster in verb-framed subgroups.", }