Caused accompanied motion in Bora

International audience The Amazonian language Bora uses a pair of deictically directed, but manner-neutral, bring and take verbs to express caused accompanied motion (CAM), but also an obtain -type verb, and a number of manner-specific, but deictically neutral verbs, e.g. carry and pull . When other verbs express CAM events, they often include directional verbal suffixes indicating associated motion, e.g. ‘go (and then do)’. Sources and goals are marked with spatial cases, but their overt expression (as well as that of themes) is syntactically optional. Phonological resemblance between the spatial case markers, the directional verbal suffixes, as well as the bring and take verbs indicate that they are historically related. The analyses in this chapter are based on a corpus of spoken Bora.