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Loca%ng Associated Mo%on:
an underdescribed morphological category
Daniel Ross University of Illinois at Urbana-‐Champaign
Rice Linguis%cs Society's 6th Biennial Conference
Saturday, March 21st, 2015
Encoding %me on the verb…
• Tense encodes when an event takes place. – (Past, Present, Future…)
• Aspect encodes how that event takes place at that %me: – Before: perfec%ve; ATer: prospec%ve – Con%nuous: progressive – Repeated: itera%ve
• Tense is central in syntac%c theory for clauses.
What about space?
• In fact, similar systems exist for morphological encoding of spa%al rela%onships on the verb. – (Technically more like aspect than tense.)
• We’ll call these Associated Mo/on (AM). • Most common is ‘going’ vs. ‘coming’ contrast: Maasai (Nilo%c, Kenya/Tanzania; Tucker & Mpaayei 1955: 127)
asi asieku asioyo ‘to be impa%ent’ ‘to come quickly’ ‘to go away quickly’
I%ve and Ven%ve
Maasai (Tucker and Mpaayei 1955, 126; 123) • A-‐rew-‐aa nkishu 1SG-‐drive-‐ITV cafle ‘I shall drive the cafle away.’ • Te-‐re-‐u nkishu IMP-‐drive-‐VEN cafle
‘Drive the cafle this way!’
Associated Mo%on Morphology
• Quechua (Soto Ruiz 2010:353) Llamka-‐mu-‐saq Filipi-‐wan Work-‐AM-‐1SG.FUT Felipe-‐WITH ‘I will (go) work (over there) with Felipe.’
In Quechua, just one general movement suffix.
Defining Associated Mo%on • Wilkins (1991:251) describes associated mo%on as “a no%onal
seman%c category which can be found crosslinguis%cally in typologically and gene%cally unrelated languages … [with] a unique morphosyntac%c treatment that dis%nguishes it from other categories [as in Mparntwe Arrernte, which] is evidence for recognising a dis%nct gramma%cal category, to be added to the list of possible morpho-‐syntac%c categories which a natural language may manifest.”
• Guillaume (2013:131) defines associated mo%on as “referring to
gramma%cal markers that afach to non-‐mo%on verbs and specify that the verb ac%on occurs against the background of a mo%on event with a specific orienta%on in space.”
Associated Mo%on in Australia The term Associated Mo/on originates in Australia (Koch 1984;
Tunbridge 1988; Wilkins 1991, 1997; McGregor 2002).
“Gramma%cal category”? Mparntwe Arrernte (Wilkins 1991: 225, 207)
(1) Re ayenge tw-‐intye-‐ke 3sgA 1sgS hit-‐DO.COMING-‐past.comple%ve ‘S/he hit me as s/he came (this way).’
(2) angke-‐tye.lhe-‐ke speak-‐GO&DO-‐pc ‘went and then spoke’
Associated Mo%on in Australia • Wilkins (1991)
described 14 categories in Mparntwe Arrernte
• Go vs. come • Temporal:
– Previous – Concurrent – Subsequent
• (Also one for a new subject.)
Deriva%on or Inflec%on? • Shasta, 13 affixes (Mithun 1999: 141)
• Some languages have many contrasts…
• More than 60 suffixes in Kwakwala (incomplete list!)
(Mithun 1999: 149-‐50)
Terminology • Associated Mo/on is convenient but not common outside of Australia.
• In North America, the terms transloca/ve (‘away from speaker’) and cisloca/ve (‘toward’), even disloca/ve (‘go away and…’).
• Ven/ve/veni/ve (‘come and…’) and i/ve/anda/ve (‘go and…’) common in African descrip%ve tradi%on and elsewhere.
• Some%mes also centripetal and centrifugal. • Otherwise just direc/onal/spa/al/loca/onal.
Areal studies • Several studies for Australian languages. • Mithun (1999) discusses North America. • Many studies of African languages, some comparison (Bourdin 2005), no overviews.
• The Tacanan family in South America (Guillaume 2013), and broader discussion in (Aikhenvald 2012).
• rGyalrong, in western China (Jacques 2013) • Sparse descrip%ons elsewhere
Methodology
• First broad compara%ve study of AM. • Based on the methodology of WALS (Haspelmath 2005), looking through descrip%ve grammars for 324 languages. – Data for 200 ready now.
• Can be challenging to compare different styles of wri%ng grammars and not miss data.
• Data is likely underes/mated rather than exaggerated due to underdescrip%on.
Research Assistants
• Collabora%ve project with four undergraduate research assistants.
– Ryan Grunow – Kelsey Lac
– George Jabbour – Jack Dempsey
WALS
WALS
WALS
325 Languages [200 presented now] Abkhaz, Abun, Acehnese, Acoma, Agarabi, Ainu, Alamblak, Alyawarra, Ambae (Lolovoli Northeast), Amele, Apurinã, Arabic (Egyp%an), Araona, Arawak, Arop-‐Lokep, Arrernte (Mparntwe), Babungo, Badimaya, Bagirmi, Baka (in Cameroon), Bali-‐Vitu, Banoni, Basque, Batak (Karo), Bawm, Berber (Middle Atlas), Bininj Gun-‐Wok, Bozo (Tigemaxo), Brahui, Brokskat, Buduma, Buma, Burushaski, Busa, Cahuilla, Canela-‐Krahô, Cantonese, Cayuga, Chamorro, Chechen, Chemehuevi, Chichewa, Chocho, Chukchi, Coahuilteco, Coos (Hanis), Cop%c, Dagbani, Dargwa, Degema, Dhaasanac, Dhivehi, Djabugay, Doyayo, Drehu, Dullay (Gollango), English, Erromangan, Evenki, Ewondo, Fijian, Finnish, Fongbe, French, Gapapaiwa, Garo, Georgian, German, Gola, Gooniyandi, Greek (Modern), Greenlandic (West), Guaraní, Gujara%, Gunbalang, Gurr-‐goni, Haida, Hamtai, Hatam, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew (Modern), Hindi, Hixkaryana, Hmong Njua, Hoava, Hungarian, Hunzib, Ika (Arhuaco), Imonda, Indonesian, Iraqw, Italian, Itzaj, Jabêm, Jakaltek, Jaminjung, Japanese, Ju|'hoan, Kairiru, Kalkatungu, Kamaiurá, Kambera, Kana, Kannada, Kanuri, Karen (Pwo), Karok, Kashmiri, Kâte, Kera, Ket, Kham, Khanty, Khasi, Khmu', Khoekhoe, Kiriba%, Koasa%, Kobon, Kolami, Kombai, Korean, Korku, Koromfe, Korowai, Koyraboro Senni, Krongo, Kugu Nganhcara, Kukú, Kuot, Kutenai, Kwaio, Lai, Lak, Lakhota, Lamang, Lango, Latvian, Lavukaleve, Laz, Lele, Lepcha, Lezgian, Lillooet, Longgu, Lugbara, Luvale, Maale, Ma'di, Madurese, Maithili, Malayalam, Mam, Mandarin, Mangarrayi, Mangghuer, Maori, Mapudungun, Marathi, Maricopa, Marquesan, Matsés, Maybrat, Mbay, Mbili, Meithei, Midob, Mixtec (Chalcatongo), Miya, Mocoví, Mohawk, Monumbo, Mosetén, Mundari, Mupun, Musgu, Mussau, Nabak, Nagatman, Nahuatl (Mecayapan Isthmus), Nahuatl (Tetelcingo), Nambikuára, Navajo, Ndebele (in South Africa), Ndjébbana, Nelemwa, Nepali, Newar (Dolakha), Nez Perce, Ngalakan, Nhanda, Nias, Nisgha, Niuafo'ou, Niuean, Nivkh, Nkore-‐Kiga, Nsenga, Nuaulu, Obolo, Ojibwa (Eastern), O'odham, Oromo (Harar), Otomí (Mezquital), Paamese, Páez, Paiute (Northern), Paiwan, Palauan, Passamaquoddy-‐Maliseet, Pech, Pero, Persian, Pirahã, Pitjantjatjara, Popoloca (Metzontla), Puluwat, Purépecha, Qafar, Qiang, Quechua (Huallaga), Quechua (Imbabura), Retuarã, Rotuman, Russian, Saami (Kildin), Saami (Northern), Salt-‐Yui, Sango, Sangu, Sanuma, Selkup, Sentani, Shoshone, Siar, Siuslaw, Slave, So, Somali, Southeast Ambrym, Spanish, Squamish, Sudest, Suena, Sundanese, Supyire, Taba, Tagalog, Taiof, Tamabo, Tamil, Tarao, Tauya, Tepehuan (Southeastern), Teribe, Tetun, Thai, Thompson, Tibetan (Shigatse), Tidore, Tigrinya, Tikar, Tinrin, Tiwi, Tobelo, Tommo So, Totonac (Xicotepec de Juárez), Trumai, Tsat, Tugun, Tukang Besi, Turkish, Tuvaluan, Tzutujil, Udihe, Udmurt, Ulithian, Upper Kuskokwim, Urubú-‐Kaapor, Usan, Vafsi, Vietnamese, Walman, Warao, Wardaman, Wari', Wichí (Mataca), Wolof, Yagua, Yaqui, Yawelmani, Yawuru, Yidiny, Yimas, Yoruba, Yukaghir (Kolyma), Zapotec (Quiegolani), Zoque (Chimalapa), Zulu, Zuni, Arapesh (Mountain), Asmat, Barasano, Burmese, Cree (Plains), Daga, Dani (Lower Grand Valley), Grebo, Kayardild, Kewa, Khalkha (Mongolian), Kiowa, Makah, Malagasy, Martuthunira, Maung, Ngiyambaa, Oneida, Rama, Rapanui, Swahili, Wichita, Irish, Selknam
Distribu%on of Associated Mo%on
200 languages: 82 with AM; 118 without
Type of Associated Mo%on
200 languages: morphology (68); compounding (12) Par%cles (21); Serial Verb Construc%ons (34)
Languages with both Ven%ve and I%ve
200 languages: 47 with AM; 153 without
Languages with I%ve
200 languages: 56 with AM; 144 without
Languages with Ven%ve
200 languages: 52 with AM; 148 without
Unspecified direc%onal
200 languages: 7 with AM; 193 without
Any horizontal direc%onal
200 languages: 67 with AM; 133 without
Ver%cal Direc%onals
200 languages: 21 with AM; 179 without
Number of AM categories
200 languages: zero (133); one (14); two (26); three-‐five (17); six-‐fourteen(10)
Number of AM categories
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14
14 26 8 4 5 1 1 2 2 1 0 2 1
Beyond morphology: • “In many Australian languages, [in addi%on to] the verbal
categories of tense, aspect and mood, … verbs may … be specified for no%ons having to do with the mo%on associated with the ac%on denoted by the verb” (Koch 1984:23)
Why just morphology?
Consider tense: • He walked • He walks • He will walk.
• In WALS (Dahl & Velupillai 2005a,b), 24% of languages do not have past tense nor have a morphological future.
And 13% have no Tense-‐Aspect inflec%onal at all (Dryer 2005).
Serial Verbs • Serial verb construc%ons (SVCs) are:
– two or more juxtaposed verbs – with no marker of dependency or linking element – expressing a single event in a single clause – with shared values for Tense-‐Aspect-‐Modality and nega%on – and shared arguments (subject and/or object) – encoding various seman%c rela%onships.
• Examples from Sranan (Sebba, 1987: 43, 46): (1) A waka go na wowoyo. (2) Mi fringi a batra broko. He walk go LOC market I throw the bofle break ‘He walks to the market.’ ‘I threw the bofle and broke it.’
Serial Verbs • Most common type of SVCs is with mo%on verbs
• “Every serializing language I have encountered includes a category of mo/on serializa/on, where a verb of mo/on is combined with some other verb in such a way that the mo/on verb comes first and the moving argument is the Agent of the second verb.” (Durie 1997: 310)
• “Every serializing language has … verbs of mo%on …
[and some languages only have] this type of serializa%on.” (Aikhenvald 2006: 48)
Serial Verb Construc%ons
210 languages: 95 with SVCs (45%); 115 w/out
Complex predicates and AM: • Par%cles (Hawaiian: Hawkins 1982:16)
mai ‘toward speaker’; aku ‘away’; iho ‘down’; a’e ‘upward’ E hā’awi mai I ka waiū ‘Give me the milk.’ – German hin-‐ ‘thither’, her-‐ ‘hither’? (Lehmann 1991:515-‐516)
• Pseudocoordina%on (English): We went and saw a movie.
• Converbs (Japanese: Shibatani 2003:271) Hi-‐ga sizun-‐de it-‐ta sun-‐NOM sink-‐CONJ go-‐PAST ‘The sun went down.’
Associated Mo%on beyond morphology
SVCs (green): 30 Complementa%on (pink): 14 Converbs (blue): 13 Par%cles (yellow): 9 (Pseudo)coordina%on (aqua): 3 Switch-‐Reference (orange): 2
(Based on a preliminary 120-‐language sample, excluding morphological AM.) But it is unclear how many of these are really gramma%calized as AM.
AM extended: • Consider English ‘went and V’:
“Look what he went and did this %me!” Doctor: “The pa%ent went and died on me.” – Gramma%calized from physical movement away from the deic%c
center to (metaphorical movement to) viola%on of expecta%ons.
• Abkhaz i%ve prefix indicates surprise (Hewif 1979:213-‐214). À-‐ bna d-‐ nə̀-‐ l-‐ q’e-‐ yt’ ‘He suddenly emerged the wood he ITV from.in emerge (fin.) from the wood.’
• Pseudocoordina%on with ‘surprise’ in other languages (Weiss 2007; Wiklund 2009)
• Joseph (1990) describes a SVC-‐like construc%on in Modern Greek with ‘come’ with interlocutor-‐aligning proper%es.
Conclusions
• AM is not rare: 25% ~ 33% ~ 40% ~ 100%?
• Should be a focus of descrip%ve work
• Should be given a similar status to tense in theory
• More research is needed! • Especially for phrasal encoding of AM.
• For example, how produc%ve are these affixes? Which verbs do they combine with?
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• Ques%ons?