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Publikováno v:
Nordic Journal of African Studies, Vol 26, Iss 1 (2017)
This paper discusses two consumption verbs in Akan (Niger-Congo, Kwa), dí ‘to eat’ and nóḿ ‘to drink’. The study argues that in addition to their basic meanings, the verbs serve as rich sources of metaphorical extensions. Starting from
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https://doaj.org/article/0b234cebfcc64966a674b52b1b4a407e
Publikováno v:
Studies in African Linguistics, Vol 44, Iss 2 (2015)
In this study, we undertook an experiment in which native speakers of Akan were given serial verbs both with and without oblique non-verbal elements (such as relator nouns, direct objects, postpositions, etc.) and asked them to construct Serial Verb
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https://doaj.org/article/df8997dc00844b7ab958d6465f6053d7
Autor:
Joyce T. Mathangwane, E. Kweku Osam
Publikováno v:
Studies in African Linguistics, Vol 35, Iss 2 (2006)
Although facts about grammatical relations in many Bantu languages have been established since the early 1970s, there are still languages in this family which have not benefited from such studies. One of these is Ikalanga, spoken in Botswana and Zimb
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https://doaj.org/article/fefe4b7e22ab4a7daa00959b629244d7
Publikováno v:
Cognitive Semantics. 7:54-84
This paper presents a proposal on the form-function correlation between direct causation and non-periphrastic causatives on one hand, and indirect causation and periphrastic causatives on the other hand. The study argues that notions of direct and in
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::f17bfed81e2f7e9136b01569ae0422af
https://doi.org/10.1163/23526416-07010001
https://doi.org/10.1163/23526416-07010001
Autor:
Charles Ofosu Marfo, E. Kweku Osam
Publikováno v:
Ghana Journal of Linguistics; Vol 7, No 2 (2018); 33-51
This paper discusses two issues in nominal and verbal reduplications in Akan, a language which is widely spoken in Ghana. These are the respective morphotactic structures of the two reduplications and the claim that an asymmetry obtains between nomin
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::6f17f532909ade22b8c20e632fd2ba88
https://doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v7i2.2
https://doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v7i2.2
Autor:
E. Kweku Osam
Publikováno v:
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 40:111-120
Studies in grammaticalization have brought to light the fact that languages develop function words from lexical sources. Akan, a Kwa language, like many languages of West Africa, is known to have a complementizer that developed from the verb ‘to sa
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::092aca8e99c8a13a96d0fe5a4a31399d
https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2007.10414619
https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2007.10414619
Autor:
E. Kweku Osam
Publikováno v:
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 29
It has been recognized (Levin 1993) that the variation in the expression of the arguments of a verb (verbal alternation) is based largely on its meaning. This paper explores the relevant alternations that verbs in Akan, a Kwa language of Ghana, parti
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::16fc28b0fd96827b14800a0266038570
https://doi.org/10.1515/jall.2008.003
https://doi.org/10.1515/jall.2008.003
Autor:
E. Kweku Osam
Publikováno v:
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 19
The paper examines complementation in Akan using Givon's model of event integration developed for analyzing the syntax and semantics of complementation across languages. It is argued that the notion ofimplicativity which is very central to Givon 's m
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::9320a4ebe669d070fedeb0fe4fd0734d
https://doi.org/10.1515/jall.1998.19.1.21
https://doi.org/10.1515/jall.1998.19.1.21