Position of prior motion affixes (black: suffix; red: prefix; yellow: mixed)

Position of prior motion affixes (black: suffix; red: prefix; yellow: mixed)

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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...

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... likely explanation for the clear bias in verb order is the principle of temporal iconicity such that the linear order of verbs in the construction follows the chronological order of the activities or states they represent (Tai 1985;Li 1993:480, 500;Durie 1997:330;Good 2003:437, 444;Aikhenvald 2006). In regard to prior motion morphology, as shown in Figure 2, among the 61 languages that Ross (2021a) reports as having morphology expressing prior motion, only 18 have prior motion prefixes (including one language with both prefixes and suffixes), while the remaining 43 (70%) have suffixes. This clear bias towards suffixing aligns with many previous observations that suffixes are more common than prefixes cross-linguistically (e.g. ...

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