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Associated Motion

Conlangery Podcast

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The Different Types of Motion Functions in Languages

There are many different terminological traditions that use different terms. Just keep that in mind where you're reading our sources and looking at literature of this because you might have to learn multiple synonymous terms, too. This is really widespread around the world. I think some of the early ideas about this being its own thing that needs to be studied came out of Papua New Guinea but there's Australian languages. There are Sinnoh Tibetan languages that have this. A bunch of Polynesian languages in particular have things that get cults particles - so does Somali.

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