A contrastive study of Germanic satellite-framed languages: The role of prepositions, postpositions and morphosyntactic case-marking

Dutch, English and German belong to the class of Germanic languages which, in typological terms, have been defined as satellite-framed languages (Slobin 2006, 2017; Talmy 2000, 2017). They express the path of motion preferably with satellites and the manner dimension in the main verb. Although these three languages belong to the same typological class, they differ in the way in which they realize these dimensions. With examples from the Sketchengine (https://www.sketchengine.eu/) our study aims to propose a more fine-grained description of the three Germanic languages and to show how expressio... Mehr ...