Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Motion events: Semantic typology and its acquisition -- Chapter 3 Inter- and intra-typological differences -- Chapter 4 Typological study: Motion events in French, German, Italian and Spanish -- Chapter 5 Acquisition study of motion events in L2 Spanish -- Chapter 6 Conclusions and future directions -- Appendix 1: Motion verbs in Spanish, Italian, French and German Frog Stories -- Appendix 2: Motion verbs in L1 and L2 Spanish -- References -- Subject index -- Author index