Table of contents
Acknowledgment
VII
Foreword
IX
Introduction
1
Section 1.Fieldwork
Chapter 1.
Linguistic fieldwork as team science
20
Section 2.Locative predication
Chapter 2.
Locative expressions and their semantic extensions in Tima
44
Chapter 3.
A comparative study of the basic locative construction in Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi, and Tongugbe
74
Chapter 4.
Adposition classes in Tafi and Sɛlɛɛ
99
Chapter 5.
Moving from verbs to prepositions in Gbe
128
Section 3.Tense, aspect, mood and serialization
Chapter 6.
Lost siblings
Areal forces in the divergence of Krio and Pichi
154
Chapter 7.
The eventive functional sequence
Take and
give serial verb constructions in Gungbe
189
Chapter 8.
Reduced complements
222
Section 4.Verb semantics
Chapter 9.
Caused accompanied motion in a direction
bring and
take in Katla (Niger-Congo, Sudan)
238
Chapter 10.
From injecting to planting
The semantics of
dó
263
Section 5.Nominalization
Chapter 11.
Constructions with verbal nouns in Iraqw
286
Chapter 12.
Remarks on nominalised adjectives in Gã
314
Author index
Language index
Subject index
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