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Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion in Komnzo

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.

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.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface and acknowledgements vii
  4. Bringing and taking 1
  5. Caused accompanied motion in Bora 43
  6. The expression of directed caused accompanied motion (CAM) events in Chipaya 57
  7. Expressing directional caused accompanied motion in Movima 77
  8. The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yurakaré 101
  9. Directed caused accompanied motion events in Saliba-Logea 147
  10. Directed caused accompanied motion events in Sudest, an Oceanic language with classificatory verbs 187
  11. Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of Indonesia 219
  12. Caused accompanied motion constructions in Vera’a 243
  13. Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion in Komnzo 273
  14. The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Savosavo 301
  15. Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet 341
  16. Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yali 369
  17. Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and Dëne Sųłıné child language corpora 397
  18. Index 435
Caused Accompanied Motion
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.134.10doh

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface and acknowledgements vii
  4. Bringing and taking 1
  5. Caused accompanied motion in Bora 43
  6. The expression of directed caused accompanied motion (CAM) events in Chipaya 57
  7. Expressing directional caused accompanied motion in Movima 77
  8. The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yurakaré 101
  9. Directed caused accompanied motion events in Saliba-Logea 147
  10. Directed caused accompanied motion events in Sudest, an Oceanic language with classificatory verbs 187
  11. Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of Indonesia 219
  12. Caused accompanied motion constructions in Vera’a 243
  13. Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion in Komnzo 273
  14. The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Savosavo 301
  15. Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet 341
  16. Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yali 369
  17. Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and Dëne Sųłıné child language corpora 397
  18. Index 435
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