Coming from Named Places (Feature 81)

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Feature Annotation

Here we look especially at ‘motion-from’-constructions. As different sources might be differently marked, we only take “named places” into account, e.g. names of villages, cities.
In expressions like ‘My mother returned from Belair’, many languages do not use a spatial adposition (see Value 1). Other languages might use adpositions (pre-, post-, circumpositions: see Values 2-4). Serial verb constructions may also express ‘motion-from’ (see Value 5). For the definition of serial verb constructions as used in the APiCS questionnaire, please see the APiCS Glossary and Feature 84, “Directional Serial Verbs (‘come’, ‘go’)”.

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Values

Value		Value Annotation
1	No adposition	Chinuk Wawa Náyka čáku Siyátl. [1SG come Seattle] ‘I’m coming from Seattle.’
2	Preposition	Vincentian Shi kuhm bak fram Gomea yestade. ‘She came back from Gomea yesterday.’
3	Postposition	“My mother returned Belair from.“ Sri Lanka Malay Klumbu DuuDung kubalile e-datang(aDa). [Colombo from back-COM ASP-come (AUX)] ‘(He) has come back from Colombo.’
4	Circumposition	Something like “My mother returned from Belair out“.
5	Serial verb	Something like “My mother returned come Belair“ (A marker counts as a serial verb if it is also used as a verb in other constructions.)Principense No vika fo Santome ontxi. [1PL come come.from São Tomé yesterday.] ‘We came from São Tomé yesterday.’
6	Serial verb plus adposition	“My mother returned come from Belair.”
7	Other	(Please give details in the “General comments” field.)

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