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Associated motion and associated posture in Tacana (Takanan family, Amazonian Bolivia)

Antoine Guillaume

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This paper is a typologically-informed description of 19 verbal affixes that express, as part of their primary meanings, notions of motion or posture in Tacana, an endangered and poorly described language from the Takanan family. I will argue that these affixes express associated motion (AM), a now well-established typological concept (Guillaume 2016; Guillaume & Koch 2021a), and what I will call associated posture (AP), a term that some linguists, following Enfield (2002), have started to use, by analogy to that of associated motion. Five of the 15 AM affixes (‘going’, ‘coming’, ‘going back’, ‘coming back’, ‘wandering’) and the four AP affixes (‘“sitting”’, ‘standing’, ‘lying’ and ‘hanging’) are noteworthy for taking part in the obligatory verbal inflectional morphology, expressing, in addition to AM and AP, imperfective aspect (progressive, habitual, iterative or generic), in complementary distribution with other non-spatial TAM affixes. The other ten AM affixes, which occupy distinct and non-obligatory morphological slots, together form a remarkably complex system of contrasting values in terms of major typological AM parameters (moving argument, temporal relation, path and aspect). Such elaborated types of systems are typical of other Takanan, Western Amazonian and Central Australian languages, but exceedingly rare elsewhere in the world (Ross 2021).
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halshs-03758050 , version 1 (24-08-2022)
halshs-03758050 , version 2 (30-04-2024)

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Antoine Guillaume. Associated motion and associated posture in Tacana (Takanan family, Amazonian Bolivia). Studies in Language, inPress. ⟨halshs-03758050v1⟩
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