In:Predication in African Languages
Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh
[Studies in Language Companion Series 235] 2024
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 18 July 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.235.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.235.toc
Table of contents
AcknowledgmentVII
ForewordIX
Fiona Mc Laughlin
Introduction1
James Essegbey
Enoch O. Aboh
Section 1.Fieldwork
Chapter 1.Linguistic fieldwork as team science20
Rebecca Defina
Mark Dingemanse
Saskia van Putten
Section 2.Locative predication
Chapter 2.Locative expressions and their semantic extensions in Tima44
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Gertrud Schneider-Blum
Chapter 3.A comparative study of the basic locative construction in Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi, and Tongugbe74
Samuel Atintono
Dorothy Agyepong
Promise Kpoglu
Chapter 4.Adposition classes in Tafi and Sɛlɛɛ99
Mercy Bobuafor
Yvonne Agbetsoamedo
Chapter 5.Moving from verbs to prepositions in Gbe128
Enoch O. Aboh
Felix Ameka
James Essegbey
Section 3.Tense, aspect, mood and serialization
Chapter 6.Lost siblings: Areal forces in the divergence of Krio and Pichi154
Kofi Yakpo
Chapter 7.The eventive functional sequence: Take and give serial verb constructions in Gungbe189
Ryan J. S. Kotowski
Enoch O. Aboh
Jan Don
Chapter 8.Reduced complements222
Abdul-Razak Sulemana
Section 4.Verb semantics
Chapter 9.Caused accompanied motion in a direction: bring and take in Katla (Niger-Congo, Sudan)238
Birgit Hellwig
Chapter 10.From injecting to planting: The semantics of dó263
James Essegbey
Section 5.Nominalization
Chapter 11.Constructions with verbal nouns in Iraqw286
Maarten Mous
Chrispina Alphonce
Chapter 12.Remarks on nominalised adjectives in Gã314
Sampson Korsah
Author index
Language index
Subject index
