Morphosyntax of associated motion constructions in Akebu

The paper deals with associated motion constructions in Akebu (< Ghana-Togo Mountain < Kwa). Associated motion is expressed either by serial verb constructions with the verbs ‘go’ and ‘come’ or by andative and ventive morphological markers, which are etymologically clearly based on the same verbs. Morphological markers and serial verb constructions have a distribution that is close to complimentary, depending on verbal tense-aspect-modality-polarity grams and partially on morphological peculiarities of verbal forms. Despite the morphological difference between these two ways of expressing associated motion, they appear to be uniform syntactically.