In:Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig
[Typological Studies in Language 134] 2022
► pp. 43–56
Caused accompanied motion in Bora
Published online: 25 May 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.134.02sei
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.134.02sei
Abstract
The Amazonian language Bora uses a pair of deictically directed, but manner-neutral, bring and take verbs to express caused accompanied motion (CAM), but also an obtain-type verb, and a number of manner-specific, but deictically neutral verbs, e.g. carry and pull. When other verbs express CAM events, they often include directional verbal suffixes indicating associated motion, e.g. ‘go (and then do)’. Sources and goals are marked with spatial cases, but their overt expression (as well as that of themes) is syntactically optional. Phonological resemblance between the spatial case markers, the directional verbal suffixes, as well as the bring and take verbs indicate that they are historically related. The analyses in this chapter are based on a corpus of spoken Bora.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Overview
- 1.2Language background
- 2.Relevant grammatical background
- 2.1Introduction
- 2.2Spatial, comitative, and other cases
- 2.3Associated motion suffixes
- 2.4Predicates and predication
- 2.5Arguments and adjuncts
- 3.Bring and take verbs
- 3.1Semantics of bring and take verbs
- 3.2Etymology of bring and take verbs
- 4.Non-CAM-dir verbs referring to CAM-dir events
- 4.1obtain-type verb
- 4.2Manner-specific CAM verbs
- 4.3Push, pull, and lift verbs
- 4.4Accompaniment verbs and constructions
- 5.Summary
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