Yvonne Agbetsoamedo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yvonne Agbetsoamedo is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 4. Adposition classes in Tafi and Sɛlɛɛ Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 99–127 | Chapter
The main goal of this paper is to describe and compare the adposition classes of two Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages: Tafi (KA-GTM) and Sɛlɛɛ (NA-GTM). The core of the preposition classes in the two languages consists of a (general) locative and comitative prepositions, with Tafi showing the… read more
2015 Unravelling temperature terms in Sɛlɛɛ The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 107–127 | Article
This paper investigates the encoding of temperature in Sɛlɛɛ, a Niger-Congo language of the Kwa group, spoken in Ghana. The lexicon of temperature in Sɛlɛɛ consists of six central and two non-central temperature terms, distributed among the word classes of nouns, adjectives and verbs. The… read more