Associated motion is a
grammatical category
In linguistics, a grammatical category or grammatical feature is a property of items within the grammar of a language. Within each category there are two or more possible values (sometimes called grammemes), which are normally mutually exclusiv ...
whose main function is to associate a motion component to the event expressed by the verbal root.
This category is attested in
Pama–Nyungan languages, where it was first discovered (Koch 1984, Wilkins 1991), in
Tacanan (Guillaume 2006, 2008, 2009), in
rGyalrong languages
Gyalrong or rGyalrong (), also rendered Jiarong (), or sometimes Gyarung, is a subbranch of the Gyalrongic languages spoken by the Gyalrong people in Western Sichuan, China. Lai et al. (2020) refer to this group of languages as East Gyalrongic. ...
(Jacques 2013) and in
Panoan languages (Tallman 2021).
Languages with associated motion present a contrast between association motion and purposive motion verb constructions, as in the following examples from
Japhug Rgyalrong (Jacques 2013:202-3).
Although both examples have the same English translation, they differ in that (2) with the translocative associated motion prefix ɕ- implies that the buying did take place, while (1) with the motion verb does not imply the buying took place, even though the going did. The distinction made by the translocative is similar to the distinction made in "I went ''and'' bought things".
References
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*Koch, Harold. 1984. The category of ‘associated motion’ in Kaytej. Language in Central Australia 1: 23–34.
*Tallman, Adam J. R. 2021. Associated Motion in Chácono (Pano) in Typological Perspective. In: Antoine Guillaume, Harold Koch (eds.): Associated Motion. (Empirical Studies in Language). De Gruyter Mouton, p. 419–450.
*Wilkins, David P. 1991. The semantics, pragmatics and diachronic development of ‘associated motion’ in Mparntwe Arrernte. Buffalo Papers in Linguistics 1: 207–57.
Grammatical conjugation
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