Typology of motion event in Tunisian Arabic

The study of motion event examines the way a language linguistically encodes this particular seman-tic domain. The main objective of this typology is, on one hand to examine the systematic relations between the different semantic elements in a spatial event (path, goal, manner etc.) and, on the other hand, to classify the languages according to the morphosyntactic tools used to encode the notion of path (Talmy 1991). Talmy’s typology relate to means on the path of movement. They are two main path categories firstly, verb-framed languages where path is expressed in the main verb in a clause (enter, exit, ascend, etc), and secondly, satellite-framed languages in which path is expressed by an element associated with the verb (go in/out/up, etc.). According to Talmy’s typology, Semitic languages and thus Tunisian Arabic are defined as verb-framed languages. This assertion however, immediately evokes a certain number of questions. Do all the Semitic languages present the same strategies? And within Semitic languages themselves, to which "Arabic " are we referring (literal or dialectal, but in this case, of which country, which region?) and when this is the case, we will see that we apparently cannot classify Tunisian Arabic in verb-framed languages. Indeed, the strategies which Tunisian Arabic presents for the expression of motion event do not correlate with Talmy’s typology