<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Farhad,<div class="">If you are not limiting your use of “marking” to morphology, Mandarin Chinese has a sort of double marking of such phrases, where you often have a serial verb structure with the first verb representing the manner of motion (‘walk’, climb’, ‘run’, etc.), the second the sort of direction of motion (‘enter', ‘arrive', ‘exit'), followed by a location plus a locational noun such as ’top’, ‘bottom’, as in the following natural example:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">总有蚂蚁</span><span class="qkunPe" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">爬到桌子上 </span></font></div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(234, 67, 53); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">zǒng yǒu mǎyǐ pá dào zhuōzi shàng.</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(234, 67, 53); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">always have ants climb arrive table top</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(234, 67, 53);" class="">‘There are always ants climbing onto (my) table.</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(234, 67, 53);" class="">’</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(234, 67, 53);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(234, 67, 53);" class="">Each part of the structure has a different function, so I don’t know if this counts as double marking, or just separating the marking into several components.</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(234, 67, 53);" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(234, 67, 53);" class="">Hope this helps.</span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(234, 67, 53);" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(234, 67, 53);" class="">Randy</span></span></div><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Aug 2021, at 9:52 PM, Farhad Moezzipour <<a href="mailto:fmp59i@GMAIL.COM" class="">fmp59i@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is anyone aware of a language where the goal in a motion event is doubly marked? This happens in colloquial Persian:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(1) <i class="">Ta xune=ro tu 20 </i>dæqiqe<i class=""> dæv-id-æm</i>.</div><div class=""> until house=POSP in 20 minute run-PST-1SG</div><div class=""> 'I ran the distance to the house in 20 minutes.' </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The goal is marked once by the preposition and once with the postposition RA, which is basically an object maker in Modern Persian. The given example is also possible without RA, as in (2). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(2) <i class="">Ta xune 20 </i>dæqiqe<i class=""> dæv-id-æm</i>.</div><div class=""> until house 20 minute run-PST-1SG </div><div class=""> 'I ran toward the house for 20 minutes.' </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Farhad</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""> </div></div></div>
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