Yvonne Agbetsoamedo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yvonne Agbetsoamedo plays a role.
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