Fictive Motion Down Under: The Locative-Allative Case Alternation in Some Australian Indigenous Languages

Abstract

This paper describes the predication of location of participants in Indigenous languages of northern Central Australia. Two main strategies are discussed: the use of double case-marking, and the co-opting of particular local cases to express scope of predication as well as location. The coopting case in question involves the Allative Nominal Construction (AN). This is the use of an allative case instead of a locative case in the meaning of �static location� in a secondary predication where the subject of that predication has the same reference as an object or oblique in the main predication. Show more