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This book is the outcome of two projects funded by the Documentation of Endangered Languages Program (DobeS) of the Volkswagen Foundation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bringing and taking: a cross-linguistic perspective on caused accompanied motion events / Birgit Hellwig, Anna Margetts, Sonja Riesberg and Melanie Schippling -- Caused accompanied motion in Bora / Frank Seifart -- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion (CAM) events in Chipaya / Katja Hannss -- Expressing directional caused accompanied motion in Movima / Katharina Haude -- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yurakaré: semantics, pragmatics, and interactional variability / Sonja Gipper -- Directed caused accompanied motion events in Saliba-Logea / Anna Margetts -- Directed caused accompanied motion events in Sudest, an Oceanic language with classificatory verbs / Harriet Sheppard -- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Totoli, a western Austronesian language of Indonesia / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Sonja Riesberg -- Caused accompanied motion constructions in Vera'a / Stefan Schnell -- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion in Komnzo / Christian Döhler -- The expression of directed caused accompanied motion events in Savosavo / Claudia Wegener -- Expressing events of directed caused accompanied motion in Qaqet / Birgit Hellwig -- Expressions of directed caused accompanied motion events in Yali / Sonja Riesberg -- Events of caused accompanied motion in Qaqet and Dëne Sųłıné child language corpora / Birgit Hellwig and Dagmar Jung.

"This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events, including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally, genetically, and typologically diverse languages of the Americas, Austronesia and Papua. The chapters investigate such events on the basis of spoken language corpora of endangered, underdescribed languages and in this way the volume showcases the importance of documentary linguistics for linguistic typology. The semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion shows considerable crosslinguistic variation in how meaning components are conflated within single lexemes or distributed across morphemes or clauses. The volume presents a typology of common patterns and constraints in the linguistic expression of these events. The study of crosslinguistic event encoding provided in this volume contributes to our understanding of the nature, extent and limits of linguistic and cognitive diversity"-- Provided by publisher.

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