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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. 369–395

Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yali

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This chapter investigates expressions of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) events in Yali, a Trans New-Guinea language of West Papua, Indonesia. The most frequent strategy to express these kinds of events in Yali is to build a clause chain consisting of a take verb in the medial-verb slot, and a deictically specific motion verb (‘come’ or ‘go’) as the finite verb. Less frequently, non-deictic motion verbs can occur in the finite verb slot. The chapter also discusses a second construction – here called purpose of motion construction – used to express directed CAM events, and shows how the different directed CAM expressions interact with the Yali system of differential object marking.
Keywords: accompanied motion, caused motion, clause chaining, differential object marking
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Grammatical background
    • 2.1Simple and complex verbal predication
    • 2.2Oblique objects and object marking
    • 2.3Directedness and purpose of motion
    • 2.4Clause chaining and medial verbs
  • 3.Basic expressions of directed CAM events in Yali
    • 3.1The basic meaning of wa-
    • 3.2Directed CAM events expressed in clause chaining constructions
    • 3.3Directed CAM events expressed by purpose of motion constructions
  • 4.CAM events with human recipient or theme arguments
    • 4.1Human recipients and themes in CAM clause chaining constructions
    • 4.2Human recipients in CAM purpose of motion constructions
  • 5.Manner of causation and manner of motion in Yali CAM expressions
    • 5.1Manner of causation
    • 5.2Manner of motion
  • 6.Summary
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 25 May 2022
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