Abstract Fillmore has broadened our vision of semantics, placing word meanings in cognitive frames. In a recent formulation, Fillmore and Atkins (1992: 76) propose-and demonstrate-that ‘a word’s meaning can be understood only with reference to a structured background of experience, beliefs, or practices, constituting a kind of conceptual prerequisite for understanding the meaning.’ The present study is an attempt to apply the insights of cognitive linguistics to uses of verbs of motion in two types of language. I propose to extend the notion of ‘frame’ in two ways: a motion verb is situated in the discourse frame of an account of a journey; and, at the same time, it is situated in a typological frame that provides and limits the means of expressing components of a motion event in a particular language. In order to characterize the linguistic encoding of such events, then, one must attend to usage, as constrained by typology.
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