@article{6b3c4e8e39b8423b9556ae8aad8b7a47,
title = "Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of bring and take",
abstract = "This study investigates the linguistic expression of bring and take events and more generally of the semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion ('directed CAM') across a sample of eight languages of the Pacific and the Americas. Unlike English, the majority of languages in our sample do not lexicalise directed CAM events by simple verbs, but rather encode the defining meaning components - caused motion, accompaniment, and directedness - in morphosyntactically complex constructions. The study shows a high degree of crosslinguistic diversity, even among closely related languages. Meaning components are contributed to directed CAM expressions by a mix of lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and pragmatic means. The study proposes a text-based, semantic typology of directed CAM events by drawing on corpus data from endangered languages.",
keywords = "accompanied motion, caused motion, event representation, semantic typology, text-based typology",
author = "Anna Margetts and Katharina Haude and Nikolaus Himmelmann and Dagmar Jung and Sonja Riesberg and Stefan Schnell and Frank Seifart and Harriet Sheppard and Claudia Wegener",
note = "Funding Information: Research on each of the languages included here and the compilation of the corpora on which the study is based was also supported by individual DoBeS grants. Our cordial thanks are due to Dr. Vera Sz{\"o}ll{\"o}si-Brenig of the Volkswagen Foundation for her friendly support throughout the funding period. In addition, Himmelmann and Riesberg gratefully acknowledge funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) within the Collaborative Research Centre SFB1252 Prominence in Language (Project-ID 281511265). Schnell acknowledges financial support by Australian Research Council DECRA (DE120102017) and his postdoc funded through Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. Sheppard acknowledges the financial support of an Australian Postgraduate Award from Monash University. Wegener acknowledges her PhD position funded through the MPI for Psycholinguistics as well as her postdoc funded through the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology. Haude acknowledges her lab SeDyL UMR8202 and its funding institutions CNRS, INaLCO, and IRD for supporting her participation in this project. Funding Information: We thank the speakers of the languages discussed in this study for their support and we acknowledge their important contribution as language experts. We also cordially thank two anonymous reviewers of this journal for their insightful comments. The research presented here was funded by two grants from the Documentation of Endangered Languages (DoBeS) Program of the Volkswagen Foundation: Cross-linguistic patterns in the encoding of three-participant events, 2013–2017, and Cross-linguistic patterns in the encoding of three-participant events – investigating BRING and TAKE, 2017–2021. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} John Benjamins Publishing Company.",
year = "2022",
month = oct,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1075/sl.19088.mar",
language = "English",
volume = "46",
pages = "934--993",
journal = "Studies in Language",
issn = "0378-4177",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
number = "4",
}