[Lingtyp] Verbs meaning 'and, with'

[Zygmunt Frajzyngier]

Dear Jose Anonio Jodar,
You may find this paper useful for your research.
In my Grammar of Gidar (2008) you fill find evidence of the verb ‘go’ serving as clausal conjunction.

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt. 2005. Grammaticalization of phrasal and clausal relators. Afrika und Übersee, 88, 79-102.

All best,
Zygmunt

Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics
University of Colorado
www.colorado.edu>linguistics>Zygmunt_frajzyngier


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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<http://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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