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Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspectiveEdited by Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig
[Typological Studies in Language 134] 2022
► pp. 341–368
This chapter investigates the expression of directed caused accompanied motion (directed CAM) events in Qaqet, a Baining language of Papua New Guinea. Qaqet employs a complex CAM expression that consists of an intransitive motion verb plus valency-changing elements, and the chapter describes this construction, its combining elements and its distribution in a corpus of natural discourse. In addition, the chapter takes a discourse perspective and discusses how speakers prefer to build complex events by incrementally introducing and repeating information over separate prosodic and syntactic units.