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Direction And Associated Motion In Tibeto-Burman, Carol Genetti, Kristine Hildebrandt, Alexia Fawcett, Nathaniel Sims
Direction And Associated Motion In Tibeto-Burman, Carol Genetti, Kristine Hildebrandt, Alexia Fawcett, Nathaniel Sims
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This study analyzes systems of direction and associated motion in 23 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family. Both direction and associated motion can be encoded by a range of grammatical strategies, including affixes, clitics, parti- cles, serial-verb constructions, and auxiliary verbs. While some languages have only associated motion or direction, others have both, either via distinct sub- systems, syntactic ambiguity, or context-dependent interpretation. While direc- tional encodings can be interpreted as associated motion in some contexts, the reverse can also be true. Verbal semantics is key to the pragmatic interpretation of examples in context; some types of motion verbs are more …