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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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... Bantu languages, already mentioned in Section 3.3, exhibit the mirror image of stages 1 and 3 in Table 8, with initial motion auxiliary verbs becoming prefixes. 35 This can be illustrated by Nyakyusa, where these two forms for prior motion are both found synchronically (Persohn 2020(Persohn , 2018Guérois, Gibson & Persohn 2021:576). ...
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... identified three major stages of development: (i) loss of the dependency-marking suffix in clause-chaining, as in (22), followed by (ii) morphologization of the grammaticalized verb, and ultimately (iii) replacement of the original finite inflection with new suffixes. The first two changes correspond to those proposed above in Table 8, but in a different order, where at least in some Australian languages the linking morpheme is lost after compounding. But DeLancey's proposal, represented in Table 9 below, fits well for many extensively suffixing, readily agglutinating languages with object-verb word order. ...
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