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. 273–300
Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion in Komnzo
Published online: 25 May 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.134.10doh
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.134.10doh
Abstract
This chapter describes and analyses the expression of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) in Komnzo, a language of Southern New Guinea. The chapter focusses on the interaction between lexical semantics and verb morphology. It shows that the expression of CAM events revolves around a handful of very frequent lexical items (carry, fetch, return verbs), which can be placed in different morphological templates. Morphological fluidity provides a productive mechanism to derive causative alternations of intransitive motion verbs, i.e. an intransitive return verb can be used to express ‘return something’. The chapter adopts a corpus linguistic approach to the phenomenon of CAM events by providing a fine-grained frequency analysis of the most important verb lexemes based on the Komnzo text corpus. Additionally, the chapter describes how the system of adverbial demonstratives and case markers contribute to expression of CAM events.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The text corpus
- 3.Grammatical background
- 3.1Distributed exponence
- 3.2Verb templates
- 3.3Case marking
- 3.4The deictic system
- 4.CAM events
- 4.1Basic expressions of directed CAM events
- 4.2Strategies for expressing accompaniment in CAM events
- 4.3Path of motion specific verbs in CAM events
- 4.4Manner of motion specific verbs in CAM events
- 4.5Stative verbs in CAM events
- 4.6Template choice and causation
- 5.Information distribution in CAM events
- 6.Conclusion
Acknowledgements Notes Abbreviations References
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