Alloying as an economy principle in morphology (e-journal)

Current typologies of event structures usually involve a distinction between verbframed, satellite-framed and equipollent systems (e.g. Bohnemeyer and Pederson 2010). This paper investigates directional marking on verbs in three unrelated language families, Afroasiatic, Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan, and shows that an additional sub-type occurs for so-called verb-framed languages. This sub-type,…