[Lingtyp] spatial deictic transfer

[Sergey Loesov]

Dear Nigel,

Thank you for this message! As a matter of fact, I do not mind reading
Italian.

Best wishes,

Sergey

On Sun, 26 Mar 2023, 15:21 Nigel Vincent, <nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Dear Sergey,
> I would second Christian's endorsement of Davide Ricca's excellent book,
> which I re-read recently in connection with my own work. As far as I can
> see, however, everything he has written on this topic is in Italian.
> Another volume I would recommend is Maud Devos & Jenneke van der Wal (eds) *'Come'
> and 'Go' off the Beaten Grammaticalization Path*, De Gruyter 2014.
> Best
> Nigel
>
>
> Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
> Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
> The University of Manchester
>
> Linguistics & English Language
> School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
> The University of Manchester
>
>
>
>
> https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/nigel-vincent(f973a991-8ece-453e-abc5-3ca198c869dc).html
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> *From:* Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
> Rainer Feer <rainer_feer at sil.org>
> *Sent:* 26 March 2023 2:04 PM
> *To:* 'Sergey Loesov' <sergeloesov at gmail.com>;
> lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Lingtyp] spatial deictic transfer
>
>
> Dear Sergey,
>
>
>
> See:
>
> Arkadiev, P. (2020) 'Non-Canonical Inverse In Circassian Languages', *Sprachtypologie
> und Universalienforschung, Vol. 73 (2020), No. 1, pp. 81–111.* [Online].
> Available at:
> https://www.academia.edu/37779136/NON-CANONICAL_INVERSE_IN_CIRCASSIAN_LANGUAGES
>
>
>
> West and East Circassian (North-West Caucasian) have a cislocative marker
> qV that usually encodes movement towards a deictic centre (p.88). It also
> encodes actions performed by agents lower on the person hierarchy towards
> participants that rank higher if these are realised as indirect objects
> (pp. 83, 95) and is sensitive to topicality in that topical recipients /
> indirect objects in general tend to be marked by the cislocative (p. 91).
>
>
>
> Best
>
> Rainer
>
>
>
> *Von:* Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> *Im Auftrag
> von *Sergey Loesov
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 24. März 2023 17:43
> *An:* lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> *Betreff:* [Lingtyp] spatial deictic transfer
>
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am working on the “Ventive” marker in Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian,
> two East Semitic varieties of the early second millennium BC, both with
> extensive and reasonably well understood epistolary corpora of private
> correspondence. The “Ventive” is a directional marker cliticized on motion
> verbs to indicate motion towards a deictic centre (DC). In the default
> case, the DC is the location of the speaker/writer, and the Ventive is
> obligatory in this context. But this marker often appears on verbs
> describing translocation towards THOU (the addressee of the respective
> letter), and – though less frequently – towards other goals.
>
> I believe that to encode the motion towards the respective speaker/writer
> is the primordial and “natural” function of this marker, while the other
> usages represent “deictic transfers”, somewhat comparable to Bühler’s
> Deixis am Phantasma. I.e., a “deictic transfer” happens by virtue of the
> marker’s deictic (or “shifer”, in the sense of Roman Jakobson) nature.
>
> Could you please suggest to me some cross-linguistic analogies and
> typological studies of spatial deictic shifts, migration of the DC from the
> speaker to something else?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Sergey
>
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