Adpositions and adpositional relator nouns in Akebu

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ID21466108
AuthorsAndrey Shluinsky (0000-0002-2553-7213, Institute of Linguistics of Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow , Russia, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume44
Issue1
Pages77-117
Publication date2023-05-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of African Languages and Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0167-6164 • E-ISSN: 1613-3811
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/jall-2023-2006
OpenAlexW4382655586
LanguageEN
References cited33

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

Epistemology · Linguistics · Locative case · Noun · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence

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