[Lingtyp] Verbs meaning 'and, with'

[David Gil]

Dear Jose, all,



I have written about "verbal coordinations" in the Yuman language Maricopa
(Gil 1991).



Another relevant case might be the Riau Indonesian coordinator *sama *(Gil
2004).  Under my analysis of Riau Indonesian there is no noun/verb
distinction; however, if you wish to impose such a distinction, then many
other usages of *sama* would probably also be described as "verbal".



Gil, David (1991) "Aristotle Goes to Arizona, And Finds a Language without
*And*", in D. Zaefferer ed., *Semantic Universals and Universal Semantics*,
Foris Press, Berlin, 96-130.



Gil, David (2004) "Riau Indonesian *sama*, Explorations in
Macrofunctionality", in M. Haspelmath ed., *Coordinating Constructions*,
Typological Studies in Language 58, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 371-424.



Best,



David

On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 3:53 PM Jose Antonio Jodar Sanchez via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> My colleague Andrey Drinfeld and I are looking at a group of verbs meaning
> 'and, with' in a family of Papuan languages, the Torricelli family. Instead
> of using linking devices such as conjunctions (e.g. English 'and') or
> affixes/clitics (e.g. Amharic -əm) to join two noun phrases, these
> languages use verbs which have pronominal affixes for either subject,
> object, or both. Examples from Walman and Yeri can be found in (1) and (2)
> respectively, with the 'and' verb in bold:
>
> (1) [Runon      *n-a-Ø*                                            chu]
>     y-an                       y-ayako-Ø
>  klay-poch ...
>       3SG.M     *3SG.M.SUBJ-and-3SG.F.OBJ*     wife       3PL.SUBJ-be.at
>    3PL.SUBJ-make-3SG.F.OBJ   taro-porridge ...
>       ‘[He and his wife] were making taro porridge ...’ (Brown and Dryer,
> 2008: 529)
>
> (2) Hem      teipa      dore     m-nobia      [Sila    *w-odɨ-Ø*
>              Lagosi].
>      1sg        then       get.up  1sg-talk.R    Sila
> *3SG.F-and.R-SG.F*     Lagosi
>       ‘I got up and told [Sila and Lagosi].’ (Wilson, 2017: 333)
>
> We have been operating under the assumption that this phenomenon is not
> attested outside the Torricelli family and a few Austronesian languages
> (such as Lamaholot), but we do not have concrete evidence one way or the
> other, and are considering the possibility that there may be other
> attestations of such a phenomenon elsewhere that have not gotten into the
> literature on this topic. We are wondering if anyone is aware of such a
> phenomenon being attested in other language families and parts of the world.
>
> Best,
>
> Jose.
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