Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet
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Birgit Hellwig
Abstract
This chapter investigates the expression of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) events in Qaqet, a Baining language of Papua New Guinea. Qaqet employs a complex CAM expression that consists of an intransitive motion verb plus valency-changing elements, and the chapter describes this construction, its combining elements and its distribution in a corpus of natural discourse. In addition, the chapter takes a discourse perspective and discusses how speakers prefer to build complex events by incrementally introducing and repeating information over separate prosodic and syntactic units.
Abstract
This chapter investigates the expression of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) events in Qaqet, a Baining language of Papua New Guinea. Qaqet employs a complex CAM expression that consists of an intransitive motion verb plus valency-changing elements, and the chapter describes this construction, its combining elements and its distribution in a corpus of natural discourse. In addition, the chapter takes a discourse perspective and discusses how speakers prefer to build complex events by incrementally introducing and repeating information over separate prosodic and syntactic units.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- Bringing and taking 1
- Caused accompanied motion in Bora 43
- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion (CAM) events in Chipaya 57
- Expressing directional caused accompanied motion in Movima 77
- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yurakaré 101
- Directed caused accompanied motion events in Saliba-Logea 147
- Directed caused accompanied motion events in Sudest, an Oceanic language with classificatory verbs 187
- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of Indonesia 219
- Caused accompanied motion constructions in Vera’a 243
- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion in Komnzo 273
- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Savosavo 301
- Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet 341
- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yali 369
- Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and Dëne Sųłıné child language corpora 397
- Index 435
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface and acknowledgements vii
- Bringing and taking 1
- Caused accompanied motion in Bora 43
- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion (CAM) events in Chipaya 57
- Expressing directional caused accompanied motion in Movima 77
- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yurakaré 101
- Directed caused accompanied motion events in Saliba-Logea 147
- Directed caused accompanied motion events in Sudest, an Oceanic language with classificatory verbs 187
- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of Indonesia 219
- Caused accompanied motion constructions in Vera’a 243
- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion in Komnzo 273
- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Savosavo 301
- Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet 341
- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yali 369
- Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and Dëne Sųłıné child language corpora 397
- Index 435
