Upcoming Colloquium
Friday, October 10, Linguistics colloquium
145 Straub Hall. 3:00-4:30. Open to the public.
Kweku Osam
Department of Linguistics
University of Ghana
"Verbal Alternations in Akan"
It has been recognized that the variation in the expression of the arguments
of a verb is based largely on its meaning. This paper explores the relevant
verbal alternations that verbs in Akan, a Kwa language spoken in Ghana,
participate in. The following are discussed: Causative/Inchoative
Alternation, Unexpressed Object Alternation, and Ditransitive Alternation.
The paper also examines the interaction between certain alternations and
serialization.
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