Predication in African Languages.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Essegbey, James.

Contributor:

Aboh, Enoch O.

Series:

Studies in Language Companion Series

Studies in Language Companion Series ; v.235

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African languages--Verb phrases.

African languages.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.

Summary:

This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages. Together, the chapters in the book represent a bird's eye view of predication strategies in various African languages.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Acknowledgement

Foreword

Introduction

1. The pathbreaker

1.1 Marginalia

1.2 Flipping the script

1.3 Going mainstream

1.3.1 Documentary linguistics

1.3.2 Tense, Aspect, and Mood

1.3.3 Verb phrase serialization

1.3.4 Semantics

1.3.5 Typology

1.3.6 Contact

2. The papers

2.1 Fieldwork

2.2 Locative predication

2.3 Tense, Aspect, Mood and serialization

2.4 Verb semantics

2.5 Nominalization

References

Section 1 Fieldwork

Chapter 1 Linguistic fieldwork as team science

1. Introduction

2. Why team science fieldwork?

3. Three case studies

3.1 Serial verb constructions and single events

3.2 The language of perception

3.3 Folk definitions in semantic fieldwork

4. Looking forward

5. Conclusion

Section 2 Locative predication

Chapter 2 Locative expressions and their semantic extensions in Tima

2. Copula constructions

2.1 A closer look at the copulae ŋ̀kɔ́ 'cop:sg' and ɲ̀cɛ́ 'cop:pl'

2.2 The copulae ŋ̀kwíyʌ̀ 'cop' and àlmʌ́ŋʌ̂ŋ (et al.) 'cop.neg'

3. Copulae in their extended use in verbal contexts and corresponding grammaticalization chains

4. Positional verbs

4.1 Positional verbs and ideophonic adverbs

4.2 Positional verbs and their translational equivalents

Abbreviations

Chapter 3 A comparative study of the basic locative construction in Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi, and Tongugbe

2. Salient grammatical features of the languages

2.1 Gurenε

2.2 Asante Twi

2.3 Tongugbe

3. Data

4. The basic locative construction in Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi and Tongugbe

4.1 The BLC in Gurenε

5. The semantics of verbs in Gurenɛ BLC

5.1 Topological relational

5.2 Positional

5.3 Distributional

5.4 Adhesion/attachment

5.5 Existential boi 'be at'.

6. The BLC in Asante Twi

6.1 Relational

6.2 Positional

6.3 Distribution

6.4 Adhesive

7. The BLC in Tongugbe

8. Comparing the basic locative construction in the three languages

9. Conclusion

Chapter 4 Adposition classes in Tafi and Sɛlɛɛ

1.1 Typological overview

2. Prepositions in Tafi and Sɛlɛɛ

2.1 The locative preposition

2.1.1 BLC

2.1.2 Locative adjunct

2.1.3 Temporal adjunct

2.2 The comitative preposition

2.2.1 Instrument

2.2.2 Comitative

2.2.3 Manner

2.2.4 Additive

2.3 The ablative preposition

2.4 Verbs grammaticalizing into prepositions

2.4.1 The allative preposition

2.4.2 The perlative preposition ganɔ 'through'

2.4.3 The dative preposition kɔ́ 'for'

3. Postpositions

4. Conclusion

Chapter 5 Moving from verbs to prepositions in Gbe

1. The Gbe languages

2. Establishing verbhood

2.1 Morphology

2.2 Position

2.3 Reduplication

2.4 Verb focus in Gungbe and Ewegbe

3. Distinguishing between the V1 position and following verb positions

3.1 Pied-piping

4. Becoming a preposition

4.1 From verbs to ablative prepositions

4.1.1 Tsó

4.1.2 Sɔ́n

4.2 From verbs to allative position

4.2.1 Ɖé

4.2.2 Xlán

5. On the verbal origin of Sɔn

6. Conclusion

Section 3 Tense, aspect, mood and serialization

Chapter 6 Lost siblings

2. Socio-historical background and linguistic ecologies

3. Comparison of Krio and Pichi

3.1 Tense-aspect-mood marking

3.2 Expression of participant roles

3.3 Serial verb constructions

3.4 Summary of findings

4. The stratal areal contact model: Genetic divergence and areal advergence of the African Caribbean English Creole varieties.

4.1 Contact with the lexifier superstrate (a) vs. Contact with a non-lexifier superstrate (b)

4.2 Contact with adstrates (c) and strengthening/weakening of Macro-Sudan features (d)

Conventions for interlinear glosses and abbreviations

Chapter 7 The eventive functional sequence

1. Prelude

2. The Kwa data

2.1 Take-series

2.2 Give-series

2.3 Intermezzo

3. The necessity of a decomposed V

3.1 Demarcating a functional layer within V

3.2 Double object constructions and give-series

3.3 Decomposing V

3.3.1 Subevents in the functional sequence

3.4 Two verb classes

3.5 Initiation-process verbs

3.5.1 Initiation-process-result verbs

4. Reframing the Kwa data

4.1 Spelling out Take-series

4.2 Spelling out Give-series

5. Coda

Chapter 8 Reduced complements

2. Properties of restructuring complements

2.1 Syntactic properties

2.2 Semantic properties

3. Towards an analysis of RCs

Section 4 Verb semantics

Chapter 9 Caused accompanied motion in a direction

2. Katla

3. Directed CAM expressions in Katla

3.1 Motion verbs

3.2 Caused motion verbs

3.3 Possession verb

4. Discourse perspective

Chapter 10 From injecting to planting

2. Dictionary-based analysis

3. Separating meaning from interpretation

4. On the semantics of dó

4.1 One-place construction with dó

4.2 Two-place with dó

4.2.1 Dó with items of clothing

4.2.2 Dó with plants

4.2.3 Dó with solid food

4.2.4 Dó with needles and tobacco

4.2.5 Dó with non-count entities

4.2.6 Dó with price

4.2.7 Dó with money

4.2.8 Dó with debt

4.2.9 Dó with voice.

4.2.10 Dó with directional ɖa or allative prepositional phrase

4.2.11 Dó with emotions

4.3 Three-place construction with dó

4.4 Conclusion

Section 5 Nominalization

Chapter 11 Constructions with verbal nouns in Iraqw

1. Formation of the verbal noun and its nominal nature

2. Verbal nouns in constructions

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Overview of verbal noun constructions

2.3 Functional differentiation of the constructions

2.4 Verbal noun as object following the inflectional complex and preceding the verb (construction A)

2.5 Verbal noun as external object (construction B)

2.6 Verbal noun and ablative case clitic (construction C)

2.7 Verbal noun with predicative suffix ‑o

3. Complements of the verbal noun

3.1 Overview

3.2 Complements in possessive constructions and their semantic roles

3.3 Object properties of complements of the verbal noun

3.4 Complements of verbal nouns as objects (constructions A and B)

3.5 Complements of the verbal noun with =wa (construction C)

3.6 Complements of the verbal noun with predicative ‑o (construction D)

4. Summary and conclusions

Chapter 12 Remarks on nominalised adjectives in Gã

2. Relevant background notes and data

3. Deriving nominalised adjectives

4. On the noun status and structure of nominalised adjectives

5. The morpho-phonology of the nominaliser

5.1 Phonology of the base

5.1.1 Forms with overt nominaliser morpheme

5.1.2 Forms with null nominaliser morpheme

5.1.3 The exception

5.2 The semantic properties of the base

6. Nominalised adjectives in predication

6.1 Nominalised adjectives as complements of copulas

6.2 Nominalised adjectives as secondary predicates

6.3 Nominalised adjectives as depictive secondary predicates.

6.3.1 Semantics of the predicates

6.3.2 Depictives as adjuncts

6.3.3 Further notes on the morpho-syntax of DSPs

7. Conclusion

Author index

Language index

Subject index.

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ISBN:

9789027247018

OCLC:

1446129422