Joey Lovestrand. Associated motion and directionals in Chadic languages | WOCAL10

Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Associated motion and directionals in Chadic languages Joseph Lovestrand SOAS University of London [This recording was prepared for the WOCAL10 workshop: Associated Motion in African languages] Abstract: This paper looks at the expression of associated motion and directionals (Guillaume & Koch 2021) in Chadic languages, a family of about 200 languages in the Afroasiatic phylum. Descriptions of 48 languages are examined (20 Central Chadic, 19 West Chadic, 9 East Chadic). A directional morpheme (often called an “extension”) is found in 36 of 48 language descriptions examined, always following the verb (suffix or particle). These include all 20 Central Chadic languages, 15 of 19 West Chadic languages, but only 2 of 9 East Chadic languages. In addition, in at least four languages, directional meaning can be expressed in a serial verb construc