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Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig
[Typological Studies in Language 134] 2022
► pp. 77–99

Expressing directional caused accompanied motion in Movima

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In Movima (isolate, Bolivia), caused accompanied motion is typically expressed with two verbs: jiwa-ɬe ‘bring’ and joy-ɬe ‘take’. They are composed of a root denoting directional motion (jiwa-‘come’ and joy‑ ‘go’) and an applicative suffix expressing causation and accompaniment (-ɬe). The core arguments of these bivalent verbs are agent and theme, whereas the goal is optionally expressed by an oblique-marked constituent. Manner of motion or transportation is not included in the semantics of these verbs; if specified at all, it is expressed in a separate clause. Besides providing a detailed description of the morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of these two verbs, the chapter also investigates other, more marginal strategies to express directed, caused, and/or accompanied motion in Movima.

Keywords: Movima, caused accompanied motion, direction; valency, oblique arguments
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Monovalent motion verbs
  • 3.Bivalent motion verbs: Expressing CAM
    • 3.1Transitive clauses
    • 3.2Deriving CAM verbs: The applicative -ɬe
    • 3.3The applicative -ɬe on non-motion verb bases
  • 4.Oblique phrases
    • 4.1Oblique phrases as goal expressions
    • 4.2Oblique phrases expressing other non-agent event participants
  • 5.Marginal expressions of direction, accompaniment, and motion
    • 5.1Demonstratives expressing deictic motion
    • 5.2Lexicalized caused accompanied motion: ‘Drive (cattle)’
    • 5.3Non-caused accompaniment: Oylo ‘my companion’
    • 5.4Manner-specific CAM verbs
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 25 May 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.134.04hau
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