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Author(s): Felix K. Ameka, M. E. Kropp Dakubu
ISBN(s): 9789027291387, 9027291381
Edition: 100
File Details: PDF, 3.01 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 9027291381 
ISBN 13: 9789027291387
Author: Felix K Ameka

This book explores the thesis that in the Kwa languages of West Africa, aspect and modality are more central to the grammar of the verb than tense. Where tense marking has emerged it is invariably in the expression of the future, and therefore concerned with the impending actualization or potentiality of an event, hence with modality, rather than the purely temporal sequencing associated with tense. The primary grammatical contrasts are perfective versus imperfective. The main languages discussed are Akan, Dangme, Ewe, Ga and Tuwuli while Nzema-Ahanta, Likpe and Eastern Gbe are also mentioned. Knowledge about these languages has deepened considerably during the past decade or so and ideas about their structure have changed. The volume therefore presents novel analyses of grammatical forms like the so-called S-Aux-O-V-Other or “future” constructions, and provides empirical data for theorizing about aspect and modality. It should be of considerable interest to Africanist linguists, typologists, and creolists interested in substrate issues.

Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages Studies in Language Companion Series 100th Table of contents:

1:The verbal affixes in Akan: Time, tense, aspect and mood
2:L.A. Boadi | pp. 9–68
3:Akan as an aspectual language
4:E. Kwekuk Osam | pp. 69–89
5:Ga verb features
6:Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu | pp. 91–134
7:Aspect and modality in Ewe: A survey
8:Felix K. Ameka | pp. 135–194
9:The potential in Ewe
10:James Essegbey | pp. 195–214
11:Imperfective constructions: Progressive and prospective in Ewe and Dangme
12:Felix K. Ameka and Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu | pp. 215–289
13:Tense, aspect and mood in Tuwuli
14:Matthew Harley | pp. 291–330

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