ABSTRACT This paper proposes new analyses of the semantics and morphosyntactic structure of Associated Motion [AM] constructions in Kaytetye. AM constructions have been analysed as word-level constructions, with a significant non-compositional component in the semantics. We propose that these constructions are syntactic phrasal constructions with generally compositional semantics which associate a path with a predicate, and we term them Associated Path [AP] constructions. AP constructions make use of two word-level constituents in a configurational relationship: (i) a finite path auxiliary; and (ii) a participial lexical verb. Depending on the semantics of the path auxiliary and the lexical verb, AP constructions are commonly interpreted as involving motion, but motion interpretations are not an inherent requirement of the AP construction.

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Kaytetye 中的相关路径

摘要 本文提出了对 Kaytetye 中关联运动 [AM] 结构的语义和形态句法结构的新分析。AM 结构已被分析为词级结构，在语义中具有重要的非组合成分。我们建议这些结构是具有一般组合语义的句法短语结构，将路径与谓词相关联，我们将它们称为关联路径 [AP] 结构。AP 结构在配置关系中使用两个词级成分：(i) 有限路径辅助；(ii) 分词词汇动词。根据路径助词和词汇动词的语义，AP 结构通常被解释为涉及运动，但运动解释并不是 AP 结构的内在要求。