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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. 147–185

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Directed caused accompanied motion events in Saliba-Logea

 | Monash University
Published online: 25 May 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.134.06mar
Abstract
This chapter describes the encoding of directed caused accompanied motion events (‘directed CAM’) in Saliba-Logea, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea. The description is based on analysing patterns in spoken language data. Saliba-Logea expressions of directed CAM are generally morphosyntactically complex and meaning components are frequently distributed across more than one verb. In such multi-verb constructions, one verb expresses caused motion, the other directionality. In Saliba-Logea the most common expressions of directed CAM events include information about the manner of caused motion in constructions with verbs like ‘carry’, ‘drag’ or ‘guide’.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Database and methodology
  • 3.Grammatical background
    • 3.1Directional constructions
      • 3.1.1Directional suffixes
      • 3.1.2Compound directional verbs
      • 3.1.3Free directional verbs
    • 3.2Spatial postpositions
    • 3.3Benefactive constructions
    • 3.4Valence-changing devices
    • 3.5Accompaniment expressions
  • 4.Manner-of-caused-motion verbs in directed CAM expressions
    • 4.1carry verbs
    • 4.2drag, pull and push verbs
    • 4.3guide and lead verbs
    • 4.4transport verbs
    • 4.5Comparison of manner-of-caused-motion verbs
  • 5.Manner-neutral expressions of directed CAM events
    • 5.1Hai ‘get’
    • 5.2Direction + caused motion constructions
  • 6.Other construction types
  • 7.Frequencies of directed CAM expressions
  • 8.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
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