Abstract In Hittite, deictic motion verbs pai- ‘go’ and uwa- ‘come’ may co-occur in a monoclausal structure with a second verb that carries the lexical meaning. As yet, their exact function remains obscure. I argue that motion verbs involved in such construction underwent transcategorization and function as New Event Markers. I show that this development is best explained as an instance of constructionalization involving both the motion verbs and the second verb in the clause, which is based on a pragmatic inference arising when motion verbs were used without a spatial complement. Either motion verb contributes a different semantics to the construction based on the different perspective regarding the deictic center identified by the ego, whereby pai- ‘go’ (motion originating from the deictic center) marks an event as close in time and controlled, while uwa- ‘come’ (motion originating outside the deictic center) indicates distance in time and possible lack of control.

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从动词到新事件标记

摘要 在赫梯语中，指示动作动词pai-'go'和uwa-'come'可能与带有词汇意义的第二个动词共同出现在单句结构中。到目前为止，它们的确切功能仍然不清楚。我认为，涉及这种结构的运动动词经历了跨范畴化和作为新事件标记的功能。我表明这种发展最好被解释为一个结构化的例子，它涉及从句中的运动动词和第二个动词，这是基于在没有空间补语的情况下使用运动动词时产生的语用推理。基于关于自我所识别的指示中心的不同视角，这两个动作动词都为结构贡献了不同的语义，其中pai-'go'（源自指示中心的动作）将事件标记为时间上接近并受到控制，