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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. 187–217

Directed caused accompanied motion events in Sudest, an Oceanic language with classificatory verbs

| Monash University

This chapter explores the expression of directed caused accompanied motion events (directed CAM) in Sudest, an Austronesian language of Vanatɨna and Yeina Islands, Papua New Guinea. Directed CAM expressions in Sudest typically involve a caused motion verb in combination with a directional element, which can be a directional verb, associated motion prefix, or deictic enclitic. In the majority of cases, the caused motion verb is selected from a set of verbs that can be described as ‘classificatory verbs’, a type of verbal classifier. The Sudest verbs mean ‘get’ and are selected based on properties of the object referent, including consistency, flexibility, fullness, and number. Sudest is unique among the Austronesian languages as it is the only attested language of the family that has verbal classifiers.

Keywords: Austronesian, Oceanic, Papua New Guinea, Milne Bay Province, the Massim, verbal classifiers, classificatory verbs, associated motion, directional verb, directed caused accompanied motion
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Data and method
  • 3.Typological characteristics and grammatical background
    • 3.1Classificatory verbs
    • 3.2Spatial adpositions
    • 3.3Directedness
      • 3.3.1Directional verbs
      • 3.3.2Associated motion prefixes
      • 3.3.3Directional enclitics
    • 3.4Manner-of-causation prefixes
  • 4.Directed CAM expressions with classificatory verbs
    • 4.1Classificatory verbs with directional verbs
      • 4.1.1Directional compound verbs
      • 4.1.2Directional multi-verb constructions
    • 4.2Classificatory verbs with associated motion prefixes
    • 4.3Classificatory verbs with directional enclitic
    • 4.4Manner of causation and classificatory verbs
  • 5.Minor directed CAM expressions
    • 5.1Vanggu ‘lead’
    • 5.2Manner-specific verbs of caused motion ‘push’, ‘pull’, and ‘carry’
    • 5.3Directional verbs with valency-changing morphology
  • 6.Frequencies of directed CAM expressions
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 25 May 2022
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