Publications

Publication details [#42560]

Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah. 2005. Modal marking in Akan: the case of anka. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (7) : 997–1013.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative function | implicature | marker of conversational organization | modality | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Akan

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Using a relevance-theoretic perspective, this paper argues that the Akan (Niger-Congo, Kwa branch) marker 'anka' has a modal meaning, and that monosemy is the most plausible way of explaining its communicative function.