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Caused Accompanied Motion
Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the Americas, Austronesia and Papua. The chapters investigate such events on the basis of spoken language corpora of endangered, underdescribed languages and in this way the volume showcases the importance of documentary linguistics for linguistic typology. The semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion shows considerable crosslinguistic variation in how meaning components are conflated within single lexemes or distributed across morphemes or clauses. The volume presents a typology of common patterns and constraints in the linguistic expression of these events. The study of crosslinguistic event encoding provided in this volume contributes to our understanding of the nature, extent and limits of linguistic and cognitive diversity.
[Typological Studies in Language, 134] 2022. viii, 437 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 May 2022
Published online on 3 May 2022
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
- Bringing and taking: A cross-linguistic perspective on caused accompanied motion eventsBirgit Hellwig, Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Melanie Schippling | pp. 1–41
- Caused accompanied motion in BoraFrank Seifart | pp. 43–56
- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion (CAM) events in ChipayaKatja Hannß | pp. 57–75
- Expressing directional caused accompanied motion in MovimaKatharina Haude | pp. 77–99
- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yurakaré: Semantics, pragmatics, and interactional variabilitySonja Gipper | pp. 101–146
- Directed caused accompanied motion events in Saliba-LogeaAnna Margetts | pp. 147–185
- Directed caused accompanied motion events in Sudest, an Oceanic language with classificatory verbsHarriet Sheppard | pp. 187–217
- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of IndonesiaNikolaus P. Himmelmann and Sonja Riesberg | pp. 219–242
- Caused accompanied motion constructions in Vera’aStefan Schnell | pp. 243–271
- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion in KomnzoChristian Döhler | pp. 273–300
- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in SavosavoClaudia Wegener | pp. 301–340
- Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in QaqetBirgit Hellwig | pp. 341–368
- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in YaliSonja Riesberg | pp. 369–395
- Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and Dëne Sųłıné child language corporaBirgit Hellwig and Dagmar Jung | pp. 397–434
- Index | pp. 435–437
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