Revising Talmy’s typological classification of complex events

In this chapter, we critically examine Talmy’s typological classification of complex events. Talmy first proposed a typological classification of motion events over thirty years ago (Talmy 1972, 1974, 1985); he later extended his typological classification to events in general, particularly, events with resulting states (Talmy 1991, 2000). Talmy’s extension of his typological classification reflects a parallel generalization of the analysis of resultatives to include motion events with a path to a destination (e.g. Goldberg 1995, Rappaport Hovav and Levin 2001).