Applying Talmy's (1985, 2000a, 2000b) model of motion events, this study examines the three types of motion event exhibited by Hakka go55 verb-directional constructions and investigates their respective syntactic and semantic complexities. The result shows that similar to Mandarin Chinese, Hakka belongs to the split type since path is expressed by both directional verbs and complements, and is particularly encoded by directional complements in agentive motion events. However, Hakka differs from

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... Mandarin Chinese since the degree of fusion between verbs and directional complements in Hakka is not as high as that in Mandarin Chinese. And further, Hakka sub-dialects show consistency in syntactic structures and structural semantics while the major contrast is found at the lexical level.