Associated motion in the Pama-Nyungan languages of Australia

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ID20054148
AuthorsHarold Koch (corresponding author)
Year2021
Pages231-324
Publication date2021-03-08
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueAssociated Motion (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9783110692099-007
OpenAlexW3134745141
ISBN9783110692099
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This paper describes the systems of Associated Motion that are found in the Pama-Nyungan family of Australian languages, based on a survey of about 100 language descriptions, in terms of the typology which has been developed in recent years. The very complex systems (with up to 17 subcategories) of languages of Central Australia, which have been known since the 1980s, are presented in terms of their semantic parameters, and illustrated most fully by means of an updated analysis of Kaytetye, the Arandic language for which AM was first reported (Koch 1984). Other languages are discussed according to the complexity of their system: moderately complex, binary (two AM values) and unitary. Comparison of all the systems found in 41 languages distributed widely over the continent shows an apparently independent recurrent development of AM from similar precursor constructions as well as increasing complexity of systems around a core area in the centre of the continent

Geography · Linguistic typology · Linguistics · Motion (physics) · Political science · Typology · Unitary state · Artificial Intelligence · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Computer Science · Philosophy

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