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      Do prior motion serial verbs (go) morphologize? Insights into diachrony from typology

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          Associated motion is a grammatical category which modifies a verbal predicate by adding a motion component such as indicating that motion took place prior to the event predicated by the verb. Many languages express prior associated motion ('go and V') in the form of a serial verb construction, while in other languages the same meaning is expressed morphologically. This suggests a possible diachronic link between serial verbs and affixes, but a comparison of the synchronic distributions of prior associated motion in serial verb constructions and verbal morphology reveal that such a path of grammaticalization is remarkably rare. This can be at least partially explained by temporal iconicity and a cross-linguistic suffixing bias. We conclude that prior motion serial verb constructions are relatively stable diachronically. The source of prior motion morphology is more likely other multiverb constructions, especially those with non-finite verbs where an overt morpheme marking dependency is lost to allow for a more efficient expression of this grammatical category, ultimately leading to univerbation.

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              Serial verbs constructions: a cross-linguistic typology

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                Journal
                spilplus
                Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus (SPiL Plus)
                SPiL plus (Online)
                Department of General Linguistics of Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa )
                1726-541X
                2224-3380
                2023
                : 65
                : 104-145
                Affiliations
                [02] orgnameSOAS University of London orgdiv1Cultures and Linguistics orgdiv2School of Languages United Kingdom jl119@ 123456soas.ac.uk
                [01] Riverside orgnameUniversity of California United States
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                S2224-33802023000100008 S2224-3380(23)06500000008
                10.5842/65-1-972
                e5f82009-0489-4dbc-9451-05cffa557283

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                Part 3: Dynamization of synchrony - A typological perspective

                Serial verb constructions,typology,grammaticalization,associated motion

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