List of Figures List of Tables Chapter 1 Introduction: Representing Motion Events Within and Beyond Language Chapter 2 Narrating Motion Events in an L2--Evidence from English and Korean Learners of Chinese 13 2.1 How English learners across proficiencies acquire motion expressions in Chinese: A review of study by Ji (2021) 2.2 How Korean learners across proficiencies acquire motion expressions in Chinese: A review of study by Jin (2020) Chapter 3 Motion Event Cognition in Bilingual Speakers 3.1 Representing motion events in an L2 context 3.2 Manner-salience in English and Manner- and Path-salience in Chinese 3.3 Motion event cognition in L2 learners Chapter 4 The Coneeptualisation of Voluntary Motion Events in L2 English Learners (Experiment 1 ) 4.1 Predictions 4.2 Methodology 4.2.1 Participants 4.2.2 Materials 4.2.3 Pretest 4.2.4 Testing session 4.2.5 Coding 4.3 Results 4.3.1 Mean number of Manner-matches and Path-matches across 5 participant groups 4.3.2 RT in judgment across 5 groups of participants 4.4 Discussion Chapter 5 The Coneeptualisation of Caused Motion Events in L2 English Learners ( Experiment 2) 5.1 Research questions and hypotheses 5.2 Materials 5.3 Results 5.3.1 Number of Manner- and Path-matched judgments across 5 participant groups 5.3.2 RT in Manner- and Path-matched judgments across 5 participant groups 5.4 Discussion Chapter 6 Conceptualising Motion Events in L2 Chinese Learners ( Experiments 3) 6.1 Research methodologies 6.2 Results 6.2.1 Mean proportion of Manner-matches and Path-matches across 4 participant groups 6.2.2 The proportion of Path-matches across stimulus items 6.2.3 RT across 4 participant groups 6.3 Discussion of the results Chapter 7 General Remarks 7.1 Significance of the study 7.2 Directions for future research References Appendices