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Predication in African Languages
Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh
[Studies in Language Companion Series 235] 2024
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Chapter 9
Caused accompanied motion in a direction

bring and take in Katla (Niger-Congo, Sudan)

| University of Cologne
The concepts bring and take belong to a semantic domain that can be characterized as events of caused accompanied motion in a direction. This contribution investigates the expression of this domain in Katla (Niger-Congo; Sudan) within a corpus of naturalistic data, shows that Katla employs complex expressions (where motion, caused motion and possession verbs combine with venitive and comitative derivational extensions), and relates these findings to recent typological research in this domain. The contribution is set within a research tradition that investigates cross-linguistic lexicalization patterns.
Keywords: caused motion, possession verbs, lexicalization patterns, Katla
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Katla
  • 3.Directed CAM expressions in Katla
    • 3.1Motion verbs
    • 3.2Caused motion verbs
    • 3.3Possession verb
  • 4.Discourse perspective
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 18 July 2024
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