Romance languages tend to encode directional information into the verb itself; linguists say that the path of motion is verb-framed. In contrast, Germanic languages provide directional information via auxiliary particles; linguists say that the path of motion is satellite-framed.
Since modern English has satellite-framed Germanic ancestry, but also extensive borrowings from verb-framed Latin and French (et al.), the directional information sometimes gets both verb-framed and satellite-framed. Thus the belt-and-suspenders effect.
Last edited by Julie Steiner; 02-26-2016 at 11:06 AM.
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