Adpositions and adpositional relator nouns in Akebu.
In: Journal of African Languages & Linguistics, Jg. 44 (2023-05-01), Heft 1, S. 77-117
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This paper presents an overview, based on field data, of the adpositional system in Akebu, a Kwa (Ghana-Togo Mountain) language of West Africa. Like other Kwa languages, Akebu has both linear types of adpositions. Prepositions are not numerous and are fully grammaticalized. Two prepositions are used very widely, one of them expressing a comitative meaning and a number of related ones, the other having a generalized locative meaning, as well as other ones. In contrast, postpositions are more numerous, but most of them are weakly grammaticalized relator nouns that express the meanings of locational orientations and keep nominal morphology and independent uses. Still, grammaticalized postpositions are also present, the most common of them being a postposition that expresses apudessive, i.e. near, next to, orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Nugɔmekuku leɖi sia le nu ƒom gbadza tso nyaleɖi siwo ŋu míeke ɖo tso teƒefianyawo ƒe nɔnɔme le Akebu, si nye Kwa (Ghana-Togo To) gbegblɔgblɔ si le Ɣetoɖoʃe Afrika nutome la ŋu. Abe Kwa gbegbɔgblɔ bubuawo ene la, teƒefianya ŋgɔdotɔwo kple megbedotɔwo le Akebu gbegbɔgblɔ hã me. Ŋgɔdoteƒefianyawo mesɔgbɔ o, gake woƒe gbeŋutise dɔwɔƒewo de ha fũu. Akebugbe zãna ŋgɔdoteƒefianya eve ŋutɔ: ɖeka fiana kpekpeɖeŋu gɔmesese kple geɖe bubu siwo fia nenem gɔmeɖeɖe. Evelia fiana teƒe gbadza kple geɖe siwo do ƒome siawo tɔgbi. Megbedoteƒefianyawo sɔgbɔ sãa wu ŋgɔdoteƒefianyawo le Akebu gbegbɔgblɔ me, gake geɖeawo ƒe gbeŋutise siwo ku ɖe nya ŋu la mesẽ ŋu o. Woɖena teƒefiafia gɔmesese kple nyagbe ɖokuisinɔtɔwo ƒe gɔmesese fiana. Godoo la, megbedoteƒefianya gbeŋutisetɔwo hã li. Esi bɔ fũu lae nye megbedoteƒefianya si ɖea axadzinɔnɔ na nane ƒe gɔmesese fiana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Adpositions and adpositional relator nouns in Akebu.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Shluinsky, Andrey |
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Zeitschrift: | Journal of African Languages & Linguistics, Jg. 44 (2023-05-01), Heft 1, S. 77-117 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0167-6164 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1515/jall-2023-2006 |
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