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Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructionsEdited by Laure Sarda and Benjamin Fagard
[Human Cognitive Processing 72] 2022
► pp. 69–94
Edited by Laure Sarda and Benjamin Fagard
[Human Cognitive Processing 72] 2022
► pp. 69–94
Chapter 4Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology
This study explores the issue of Associated Motion (hereafter AM) in five languages spoken in Africa and Asia. We investigate grammatical morphemes whose function is to add a motion process to the event encoded in the verb expressing the main (non-motion) event, and to specify the temporal sequence of these two events (motion-prior-to-action or motion-subsequent-to-action). We show that an AM analysis adequately accounts for the function of morphemes previously considered as directionals in Wolof and Burmese, whereas in Sereer, Northern Mandarin and Japanese, AM markers are concurring with morphemes marking deictic orientation. Our results support recent studies showing that AM is a widespread linguistic phenomenon, and thus raise the question of the place of AM in a typology of motion events.
Keywords: Atlantic languages, Burmese, Japanese, Mandarin, deictic orientation, motion-prior/subsequent-to-action
Article outline
- 1.Introduction: Understudied aspects of dynamic deixis
- 2.Deictic orientation and deictic directionals
- 2.1The relative autonomy of the deictic component
- 2.2Deictic orientation: A few examples
- 3.Associated motion and deictic orientation
- 3.1Associated motion as a “cross-linguistically valid conceptual category”
- 3.2The subfunctions of Associated Motion discussed in this study
- 3.3Associated Motion in Burmese and Wolof
- 3.4When the same forms function as deictic directionals and as AM markers
- 3.4.1The motion-prior-to-action subtype: Sereer and Northern Mandarin
- 3.4.2The motion-subsequent-to-action subtype: Japanese
- 3.4.3Deictic orientation markers and AM markers: A summary
- 4.Discussion of a few specific issues related to AM
- 4.1The inventory of AM markers
- 4.1.1Dynamic deixis
- 4.1.2Motion back (home)
- 4.1.3“Roundtrip” motion
- 4.2Source for AM markers and grammaticalization paths
- 4.3Argument structure of a complex verb including an AM marker
- 4.4Foregrounded actions vs. backgrounded motion
- 4.1The inventory of AM markers
- 5.To conclude: Some perspectives for further research
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