Main Verb Properties and Equipollent Framing

I t has been a pleasure adding my chapter to the others in this volume to acknowledge and thank Dan Slobin for his immense contribution. Dan’s work has closely interacted with my own over the decades, from the typology of Motion, to the structure of spatial conceptions, to the semantics of grammar. In this Festschrift for him, I would like to thank him for his pivotal ideas in these and more areas. We have agreed on much and, where we have disagreed, each has often used the other’s objections as a springboard for further developments, sometimes through several cycles, as in the case of the present chapter. Best of all, our linguistic interactions have taken place within a friendship that has also spanned the decades.