Language Typology Trace Based on Motion Events: Javanese Spoken by English Learners
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- This study aimed at identifying the ways Javanese, one of Austronesian languages, speakers expressed motion events, either using man-ner-incorporating sentences, path-incorporating sentences, or equipollently framing manner and path in the same predication position. The investigated speakers were English learners. Furthermore, the study investigated whether language contact played a role in the lan-guage change. After analyzing data from Javanese speakers learning English, it was revealed that Javanese consultants used mostly man-ner verbs, behaving more like a satellite-framed language, no longer an equipollently-framed. Language contact played a role in the ten-dency alteration of Javanese speakers to produce manner verbs in the predicate position caused by their learning English, which is a sat-ellite-framed language with major construction of manner-incorporating sentences. The result of the study on language typology of Java-nese spoken by English learners could end up showing that language contact in the multilingual contexts might contribute to any lan-guage variation.