| Summary: | Two commonly-held assumptions in the literature on the Goal of Motion construction in Englishare, on the one hand, that there is a clear-cut distinction between verbs of inherently directed motion andmanner-of-motion verbs regarding their semantics, in that the former include Path and the latter, Manner intheir semantic make-up, and that affects the way in which they express motion to/towards a Goal (bycombining with an obligatory/optional directional PP), and, on the other hand, that manner-of-motion verbsfreely participate in the Goal of Motion construction. The present article challenges these assumptions andproposes that motion verbs in English form a continuum (a Directionality Squish) along which they rangefrom those that always express directed motion to those that never do so.
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