Attention to Manner of Motion in Arabic Novels: A Diachronic Study

The objective of this work is to conduct a corpus-based diachronic investigation lexicalization patterns motion events as well attention manner in Arabic narrative writing. Motivated by the scarcity research on events, study aims identify main linguistic constructions used express novels and more importantly investigate whether shift salience has taken place last hundred years. draws Talmy’s framework satellite-framed versus verb-framed typology languages makes use two literary corpora. Main findings include identification six major show that while novelists both time periods make similar constructions, there seems be significant towards contemporary novels. This increased reflected less default manner-of-motion verb, walk, favour expressive verbs, stronger tendency modification with walk non-manner significantly heavier non-verbal modifiers.