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Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions
Edited by Laure Sarda and Benjamin Fagard
[Human Cognitive Processing 72] 2022
► pp. 189–207

Chapter 9
Co-event relations in Swedish motion constructions

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This paper discusses co-events denoted by verbs used in Swedish motion events. The motion events are analyzed as constructions in the sense of construction grammar, in which the motion component can be argued to be evoked by a syntactic construction rather than by the verb per se.

The manner of motion aspect of motion events has been extensively explored in typological research. The purpose of the paper is to give an overview of co-events often neglected in this research on motion events. Based on empirical findings in large corpora, this paper also focuses on co-event relations other than manner, such as concomitant activities, concurrent results, predicatives and modality.

Keywords: concomitant activities, concurrent results, construction grammar, corpus study, modality, Swedish
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Motion events in Swedish
  • 3.Motion events as motion constructions
  • 4.Co-event relations
    • 4.1Manner of motion
    • 4.2Concurrent result
    • 4.3Concomitance
    • 4.4Predicative
    • 4.5Modality
  • 5.Final remarks
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 7 July 2022
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