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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. 341–368

Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet

 | Universität zu Köln
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.
Keywords: Papuan languages, language documentation, complex predicates, three-participant events, caused motion events
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Packaging information across the clause
    • 2.1Oblique arguments
    • 2.2Spatial information
  • 3.Expressions of directed CAM events
    • 3.1The CAM construction
      • 3.1.1Verbs
      • 3.1.2Prepositions
      • 3.1.3Adverbials
    • 3.2Minor patterns
      • 3.2.1Verbs of carrying
      • 3.2.2Verbs of pushing and pulling
      • 3.2.3Other semantic domains
  • 4.A discourse perspective: Building complex events
  • 5.Summary
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 25 May 2022
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