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Caused accompanied motion : bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Anna Margetts, Birgit Hellwig, Sonja Riesberg.

"This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the Ame...

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Other Authors: Margetts, Anna (Editor), Hellwig, Birgit, 1970- (Editor), Riesberg, Sonja (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Series:Typological studies in language, volume 134
Subjects:
Motion in language.
Direction in language.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Locative constructions.
Endangered languages > Case studies.
Direction in language
Endangered languages
Grammar, Comparative and general > Locative constructions
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
Motion in language
Case studies
Essays
Table of Contents:
  • Bringing and taking: a cross-linguistic perspective on caused accompanied motion events / Birgit Hellwig, Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Melanie Schippling
  • Caused accompanied motion in Bora / Frank Seifart
  • The expression of directed caused accompanied motion (CAM) events in Chipaya / Katja Hannss
  • Expressing directional caused accompanied motion in Movima / Katharina Haude
  • The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yurakaré: semantics, pragmatics, and interactional variability / Sonja Gipper
  • Directed caused accompanied motion events in Saliba-Logea / Anna Margetts
  • Directed caused accompanied motion events in Sudest, an Oceanic language with classificatory verbs / Harriet Sheppard
  • Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of Indonesia / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Sonja Riesberg
  • Caused accompanied motion constructions in Vera'a / Stefan Schnell
  • Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion in Komnzo / Christian Döhler
  • The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Savosavo / Claudia Wegener
  • Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet / Birgit Hellwig
  • Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yali / Sonja Riesberg
  • Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and Dëne Sųłıné child language corpora / Birgit Hellwig and Dagmar Jung.

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