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William comes back on the show to tell us all about the category of Associated Motion.
Links and Resources:
- Wikipedia – Andative and Venitive
- de la Fuente, J. A. A., & Jacques, G. (2017) Associated motion in Manchu in typological perspective. Language and Linguistics. 語言暨語言學, 19(4), 501–524. https://doi.org/10.1075/LALI.00018.ALO
- Jacques, G., Lahaussois, A., & Zhang, S. (2018) Associated motion in Sino-Tibetan/Trans-Himalayan. In The 12th conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology: workship on” Associated Motion.
- Ross, D. (2017) A Cross-Linguistic Survey of Associated Motion and Directionals. Data Handout. Presented at the international workshop on Associated Motion at the 12th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 12), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
- Ross, D. (2015) Locating Associated Motion: an underdescribed morphological category. Rice Linguistics Society’s 6th Biennial Conference.
- Jacques, G. (2021) A grammar of Japhug. Language Science Press.
- Belkadi, A. (2015) Associated motion with deictic directionals: A comparative overview. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 17, 49-76.
- Guillaume, A. and Koch, H. Introduction: Associated Motion as a grammatical category in linguistic typology. Guillaume, A. and Koch H. Associated motion, De Gruyter Mouton 978-3-11-069200-6. 10.1515/9783110692099-001. halshs-02917416v2
- Guillaume, A. (2009) Cavineña “associated motion” suffixes: their meanings and discourse function. In Transalpine Typology Meeting, Bern.
- Genetti, C., Hildebrandt, K., Sims, N. A., & Fawcett, A. Z. (2020). Direction and associated motion in Tibeto-Burman. Linguistic Typology, 1
- Lovestrand, J., & Ross, D. (2020). Serial verb constructions and motion semantics. In Proceedings from the ALT17 workshop on associated motion, Empirical Approaches to Language Typology. de Gruyter Mouton.
/sɑɪ̯f ɑsɑd ɑˈsːətjə/
According to Chinese Wikipedia, ja-phug is the (Wylie) Tibetan name. So the g comes from Tibetan. Whether this word ultimately has a Tibetan or Gyalrongic or other etymology, I don’t know. If Gyalrongic, perhaps the final consonant was originally present but became silent through regular sound changes. Note that the final -g in Tibetan is now nearly silent, a glottal stop at best, so it could also represent a loan from Tibetan after that change. Note that modern standard Tibetan would also have a devoiced initial and probably a raised first vowel, which match the Japhug pronunciation, although the Tibetan initial should also be aspirated.
Qwynegold
So the thing that Navajo (?) and other North American languages do, where they have a bajillion different affixes that define how an action is done, is associated motion?
Wm Annis
Most of those are directional affixes, rather than associated motion (strictly speaking), but both AM and directional affixes can occur together in many of these languages.