[Lingtyp] motion verbs

[Guillaume Jacques]

Dear Sergey,

By "translational motion", Guillaume simply means "spatial
displacement/change of location" (the deixis can be trans- or
cis-locative). Akkadian has a ventive morpheme which indeed seems to have
some associated motion uses, though it should be classified as a
*non-dedicated* AM marker.

Le lun. 6 juin 2022 à 19:03, Sergey Loesov <sergeloesov at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Dear Guillaume,
>
> Thanks a lot, this message of yours is important for my research into
> verbal allative markers in Old Babylonian Akkadian!
>
> Is *translational motion *same as translocation motion?
>
> Best,
>
> Sergey
>
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 18:56, Guillaume Jacques <rgyalrongskad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think that any definition of a motion verb should take into account the
>> concept of *associated motion*, about which a collective book edited by
>> Harold Koch and Antoine Guillaume was published last year.  A. Guillaume's
>> (2016) definition of AM is the following: "An AM marker is a grammatical
>> morpheme that is associated with the verb and that has among its possible
>> functions the coding of translational motion." The notion of *translational
>> motion* seems to me useful to define motion verbs too (as opposed to
>> motion involving part of the body, for instance).
>>
>> In addition, a non-motion verb taking an associated motion marker is
>> turned into a motion verb, so that languages with grammaticalized AM have
>> an open class of motion verbs.
>>
>>
>> Reference
>> Guillaume, Antoine 2016 Associated motion in South America: Typological
>> and areal perspectives. Linguistic Typology, De Gruyter, 2016, 20 (1),
>> ⟨10.1515/lingty-2016-0003⟩. ⟨halshs-01918336⟩
>> Guillaume, Antoine and Harold Koch 2021. Associated Motion. Berlin:
>> Mouton de Gruyter.
>>
>> Le lun. 6 juin 2022 à 16:36, Juergen Bohnemeyer <jb77 at buffalo.edu> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> Dear Sergey — Interesting question! I don’t think there’s anything in
>>> the grammar of most languages that corresponds to or expresses the concept
>>> of ‘motion.’
>>>
>>> The various subclasses of motion verbs can be defined on semantic
>>> grounds: path verbs entail change of location; manner verbs describe
>>> activities of agents/effectors that can cause change of location or
>>> describe change of orientation in those same agents/effectors; transport
>>> verbs are either causative path verbs or locate an object on a carrier
>>> (‘carry on back’, ‘carry on hip’, etc.), and so on.
>>>
>>> But there’s no overarching definition that would encompass all those
>>> subclasses, but no events that don’t involve motion. So a definition such
>>> as ’The class of all verbs of a given language that is used to describe
>>> exclusively motion events’ can at best be met disjunctively and thus
>>> doesn’t define the most “natural” concept.
>>>
>>> The supposedly primitive concept ‘motion’ apparently just isn’t.
>>>
>>> An important reference on the typology of motion verbs is Wälchli
>>> (2009).
>>>
>>> HTH! — Juergen
>>>
>>> Wälchli, B. (2009). Motion events in parallel texts: A study in
>>> primary-data typology. Habilitation thesis, University of Bern.
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Jun 6, 2022, at 9:50 AM, Sergey Loesov <sergeloesov at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Dear colleagues,
>>> >
>>> >  How do we properly define the concept “motion verb”? I am especially
>>> interested in the telic variety, both transitive and intransitive ones.
>>> >
>>> >  Best wishes,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Sergey
>>> >
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>>
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>> Guillaume Jacques
>>
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>

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