11 Associated motion in Chácobo (Pano) in typological perspective
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Adam J.R. Tallman
Abstract
This paper has two related goals. The first goal is to provide a revised description of associated motion (AM) in Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon. Previous studies reported only 3 AM markers, but I argue that there are at least 7, which express the three timing relations or prior motion, concurrent motion and subsequent motion. The second goal is to take up the non-motional readings of these markers and their importance for the definition and the typology of AM, in particular that concerned with the ranking of timing relations in terms of an implicational hierarchy. I argue that AM markers in Chácobo can be understood as varying according to how dedicated they are to their motion function as opposed to other non-motional functions (path, aspect, etc.). Data from naturalistic speech suggest that the prior motion morpheme is less dedicated than the concurrent and subsequent morphemes. The relative ranking of concurrent and subsequent motion morphemes vis-à-vis prior motion morphemes depends on how the diagnostics for identifying AM markers are understood. I assess the implications of this study for the general typology of AM markers.
Abstract
This paper has two related goals. The first goal is to provide a revised description of associated motion (AM) in Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon. Previous studies reported only 3 AM markers, but I argue that there are at least 7, which express the three timing relations or prior motion, concurrent motion and subsequent motion. The second goal is to take up the non-motional readings of these markers and their importance for the definition and the typology of AM, in particular that concerned with the ranking of timing relations in terms of an implicational hierarchy. I argue that AM markers in Chácobo can be understood as varying according to how dedicated they are to their motion function as opposed to other non-motional functions (path, aspect, etc.). Data from naturalistic speech suggest that the prior motion morpheme is less dedicated than the concurrent and subsequent morphemes. The relative ranking of concurrent and subsequent motion morphemes vis-à-vis prior motion morphemes depends on how the diagnostics for identifying AM markers are understood. I assess the implications of this study for the general typology of AM markers.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
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Part I: Perspectives and general issues
- 1 Introduction: associated motion as a grammatical category in linguistic typology 3
- 2 A cross-linguistic survey of Associated Motion and Directionals 31
- 3 Serial verb constructions and motion semantics 87
- 4 Associated motion and directionals: where they overlap 129
- 5 Deictic directionality as associated motion: motion, complex events and event integration in African languages 163
- 6 A visual stimulus for eliciting associated motion 201
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Part II: Australia and South Pacific
- 7 Associated motion in the Pama-Nyungan languages of Australia 231
- 8 Mudburra associated motion in an areal perspective 325
- 9 “Now the story’s turning around”: Associated motion and directionality in Ende, a language of Papua New Guinea 357
- 10 Preverbal directionals as markers of associated motion in Paluai (Austronesian; Oceanic) 385
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Part III: The Americas
- 11 Associated motion in Chácobo (Pano) in typological perspective 419
- 12 Pilagá directionals and the typology of associated motion 451
- 13 Associated motion in North America (including Mexico and Central America) 485
- 14 Associated motion in the Otomi family 527
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Part IV: Africa
- 15 Associated motion in Bantu languages 569
- 16 Associated motion and deictic directional in Atlantic languages 611
- 17 Ventive, associated motion and aspect in Jóola Fóoñi (Atlantic) 665
- 18 The extension of associated motion to direction, aspect and argument structure in Nilotic languages 695
- 19 The ‘along’–deictic-directional verb suffix complex in Kupsapiny 747
- 20 At the intersection of associated motion, direction and exchoative aspect in the Koman languages 779
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Part V: Asia
- 21 Associated motion in Sino-Tibetan, with a focus on Gyalrongic and Kiranti 819
- 22 Associated motion in Tungusic languages: a case of mixed argument structure 855
- Subject Index 899
- Language Index 907
- Name Index 917
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
-
Part I: Perspectives and general issues
- 1 Introduction: associated motion as a grammatical category in linguistic typology 3
- 2 A cross-linguistic survey of Associated Motion and Directionals 31
- 3 Serial verb constructions and motion semantics 87
- 4 Associated motion and directionals: where they overlap 129
- 5 Deictic directionality as associated motion: motion, complex events and event integration in African languages 163
- 6 A visual stimulus for eliciting associated motion 201
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Part II: Australia and South Pacific
- 7 Associated motion in the Pama-Nyungan languages of Australia 231
- 8 Mudburra associated motion in an areal perspective 325
- 9 “Now the story’s turning around”: Associated motion and directionality in Ende, a language of Papua New Guinea 357
- 10 Preverbal directionals as markers of associated motion in Paluai (Austronesian; Oceanic) 385
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Part III: The Americas
- 11 Associated motion in Chácobo (Pano) in typological perspective 419
- 12 Pilagá directionals and the typology of associated motion 451
- 13 Associated motion in North America (including Mexico and Central America) 485
- 14 Associated motion in the Otomi family 527
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Part IV: Africa
- 15 Associated motion in Bantu languages 569
- 16 Associated motion and deictic directional in Atlantic languages 611
- 17 Ventive, associated motion and aspect in Jóola Fóoñi (Atlantic) 665
- 18 The extension of associated motion to direction, aspect and argument structure in Nilotic languages 695
- 19 The ‘along’–deictic-directional verb suffix complex in Kupsapiny 747
- 20 At the intersection of associated motion, direction and exchoative aspect in the Koman languages 779
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Part V: Asia
- 21 Associated motion in Sino-Tibetan, with a focus on Gyalrongic and Kiranti 819
- 22 Associated motion in Tungusic languages: a case of mixed argument structure 855
- Subject Index 899
- Language Index 907
- Name Index 917
