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Chapter 10. The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan)

  • Rainer Osswald and Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
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Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description
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Abstract

Siouan languages such as Lakhota provide an interesting case for the study of transitive directed motion descriptions because of their rich inventory of deictic motion verbs and instrumental (causative) affixes. The goal of this article is to show in detail how the different meaning components involved in such descriptions are distributed over the lexicon, the morphology, and the syntax of Lakhota. In particular, Lakhota supports a multi-verb construction for expressing transitive directed motion that consists of a transitivized deictic motion verb used as the main verb, which encodes caused motion or accompanied motion, and a dependent verb that describes the way in which the actor sets or keeps the undergoer in motion and the manner in which the undergoer moves.

Abstract

Siouan languages such as Lakhota provide an interesting case for the study of transitive directed motion descriptions because of their rich inventory of deictic motion verbs and instrumental (causative) affixes. The goal of this article is to show in detail how the different meaning components involved in such descriptions are distributed over the lexicon, the morphology, and the syntax of Lakhota. In particular, Lakhota supports a multi-verb construction for expressing transitive directed motion that consists of a transitivized deictic motion verb used as the main verb, which encodes caused motion or accompanied motion, and a dependent verb that describes the way in which the actor sets or keeps the undergoer in motion and the manner in which the undergoer moves.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction: The description of motion events 1
  5. Part I. Motion and deixis
  6. Chapter 2. What does deixis tell us about motion typology? 25
  7. Chapter 3. Linguistic representations of visual motion 43
  8. Chapter 4. Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology 69
  9. Chapter 5. On a few instances where deictic directionals confound expectations 95
  10. Part II. Motion and asymmetries
  11. Chapter 6. Implicit landmarks and opposite polarities in French motion predicates 125
  12. Chapter 7. Source–Goal asymmetry in Standard Chinese 149
  13. Chapter 8. Source–Goal asymmetry in German 173
  14. Part III. Motion and constructions
  15. Chapter 9. Co-event relations in Swedish motion constructions 189
  16. Chapter 10. The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan) 209
  17. Chapter 11. Constraints constrained 235
  18. Chapter 12. Lexical aspect and morphosyntactic cohesion between motion verbs and spatial particles in Homeric Greek 257
  19. Language index 273
  20. Subject index 275
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.72.10oss

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction: The description of motion events 1
  5. Part I. Motion and deixis
  6. Chapter 2. What does deixis tell us about motion typology? 25
  7. Chapter 3. Linguistic representations of visual motion 43
  8. Chapter 4. Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology 69
  9. Chapter 5. On a few instances where deictic directionals confound expectations 95
  10. Part II. Motion and asymmetries
  11. Chapter 6. Implicit landmarks and opposite polarities in French motion predicates 125
  12. Chapter 7. Source–Goal asymmetry in Standard Chinese 149
  13. Chapter 8. Source–Goal asymmetry in German 173
  14. Part III. Motion and constructions
  15. Chapter 9. Co-event relations in Swedish motion constructions 189
  16. Chapter 10. The description of transitive directed motion in Lakhota (Siouan) 209
  17. Chapter 11. Constraints constrained 235
  18. Chapter 12. Lexical aspect and morphosyntactic cohesion between motion verbs and spatial particles in Homeric Greek 257
  19. Language index 273
  20. Subject index 275
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