Drawing on Talmy's analysis of lexicalization patterns (1985, 1991, 2000) and Slobin's & ldquo;Thinking for Speaking & rdquo; hypothesis (1991, 1996a, 2000), we examined the linguistic characteristics of habitual descriptions of motion events in Mandarin and found that the structural and discourse characteristics of Mandarin exhibited patterns that were not entirely the same as those of either Satellite-framed languages or Verb-framed languages but showed instead hybrid patterns. The results were in turn applied to a set of properties proposed by Talmy (2005, 2016) for identifying the main ver...
