Bringing and taking
A cross-linguistic perspective on caused accompanied motion events
This chapter proposes a typology of expressions of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM): it introduces and defines this semantic domain, presents the corpus-based methodology used by the authors of this volume, and gives an overview of the results. It shows that directed CAM expressions tend to be morphosyntactically complex and it identifies four distinct patterns based on the lexical core of the expression: first, with a directed CAM verb; second, with an intransitive motion verb; third, with a transitive verb of accompaniment or of caused (accompanied) motion; or fourth, with a combination of the second and the third options. The chapter discusses each pattern and addresses issues of universality and variability in the domain of directed CAM.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Studies in the cross-linguistic encoding of events
- 1.2The sample
- 2.The domain of directed caused accompanied motion
- 2.1Semantic components
- 2.2Methodology
- 3.Patterns in the conflation and distribution of semantic components
- 3.1Basic patterns in the languages of our sample
- 3.2The expression of additional semantic components
- i.Deixis
- ii.Manner of caused motion and manner of motion
- iii.Theme features
- 3.3Universality and variability
- i.Missing meaning components
- ii.Morphosyntactic variation in expressing the patterns
- iii.Combinations of more than two elements
- iv.Variability beyond our sample
- 4.Outline of the volume
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Acknowledgements
-
Notes
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Abbreviations
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