Fictive motion down under: The locative-Allative case alternation in some Australian indigenous languages

Patrick McConvell*, Jane Simpson

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    Abstract

    This paper describes the predication of location of participants in Indigenous languages of northern Central Australia. Two main strategies are discussed: the use of double case-marking, and the co-opting of particular local cases to express scope of predication as well as location. The coopting case in question involves the Allative Nominal Construction (AN). This is the use of an allative case instead of a locative case in the meaning of 'static location' in a secondary predication where the subject of that predication has the same reference as an object or oblique in the main predication.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationShall We Play the Festschrift Game? Essays on the Occasion of Lauri Carlson's 60th Birthday
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages159-180
    Number of pages22
    Volume9783642307737
    ISBN (Electronic)9783642307737
    ISBN (Print)3642307728, 9783642307720
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2012

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