| Abstrakt: |
The goal of this paper is to discuss motion events in Toposa, an Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan in the light of ) dichotomy of verb frame (V) and satellite frame (S) languages. The paper will demonstrate that Toposa is a typical verb-framed language that conflates the path of the motion event into the verb root. In addition, it will show that in line with the lack of prepositions found in the language, Toposa developed a hybrid frame where manner of motion and path of motion are lexicalised. This hybrid frame can be regarded as a new category for the classification of motion events, as it also does not fit into the double framing or equipollent framing category of motion events, suggested by ) and ). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
