<div dir="ltr">Some Australian languages show this distinction between location of object, event and subject, which Ken Hale drew attention to. Patrick McConvell and I discuss this with comparisons with Finnish:<div>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 36px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">McConvell, Patrick, and Simpson, Jane. 2012. Fictive motion down under:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>The locative-allative case alternation in some Australian Indigenous languages. In <i>Shall we play the Festschrift game? Essays on the occasion of Lauri Carlson's 60th birthday</i>, eds. Diana Santos, Wanjiku N'gang'a and Krister Lindén, 159-180. Heidelberg: Springer.</p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 10:01 PM Joo Ian <<a href="mailto:ian.joo@outlook.com" target="_blank">ian.joo@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear all,<br>
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I am interested in the following hypothesis:<br>
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In most of the world's languages, the PP "in my house" in sentence (1) and (2) are the same.<br>
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(1) My stone is in my house.<br>
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(2) I hide my stone in my house.<br>
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For example, in German:<br>
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(1) Mein Stein ist "in meinem Haus".<br>
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(2) Ich verstecke meinen Stein "in meinem Haus".<br>
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Although there are few languages where the PP of (1) and (2) are not identical, such as Finnish:<br>
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(1) Kiveni on "talossani". (Locative)<br>
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(2) Piilotan kiveni "talooni". (Illative)<br>
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But cases like Finnish are far fewer than English-like cases, I think.<br>
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I think this is interesting because the PP of (1) and that of (2) are semantically different: the PP in (1) is a location whereas that in PP is the endpoint of a placement event. If I can show that the two PPs are morphologically identical in most of the world's
languages, then I can suggest that placement event profiles a static location as its endpoint and not a dynamic goal, like Rohde has argued in her dissertation (<a href="https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/18015" target="_blank">https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/18015</a>)<br>
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Although I find this issue interesting, I would like to know if others find it so as well. What do you think? (Also, I would appreciate if anyone can let me know any other Finnish-like cases)<br>
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>From Hong Kong,<br>
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Ian Joo<br>
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<a href="http://ianjoo.academia.edu" target="_blank">http://ianjoo.academia.edu</a></div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4554373551365317467gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Jane Simpson<br>Private e-mail</div>