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Associated Motion

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The Pragmaticalization Pathway to Associative Motion

There is actually a grammaticalization pathway where these things grammaticalize from the verb as directionals that are attached to motion verbs. And then they will get associated with non-votion verbs with the associated motion meaning and gain that there. So you would end up going from come and go as verbs to directionals to associated motion affixes, which is interesting to me. It's also interesting to me that the in the, at least when the you have the directionals being the associated motion affIXes, there's a tendency for a lot of pragmatic nonsense going on.

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