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Predication in African Languages
Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh
[Studies in Language Companion Series 235] 2024
► pp. 343–344

Subject index

A

  • ablative case clitic 292, 297–299, 304, 306–307, 312
  • ablative suffix 294–295, 298
  • adjectival base 314–315, 319–321, 324–326
  • adjective 133, 314ff
    • de-nominal 317, 320
  • adpositions 11–13, 99–100, 117, 128ff, 189, 193–194, 197, 208, 212, 214–216, 219–220
  • adstrates 156–158, 161, 174, 177–182
  • Advanced Tongue Root ATR
  • agreement markers 102, 104–106, 114
  • areal advergence 156, 176–178, 182
  • areal typology155
  • arguments
    • internal 194ff, 198, 202–203, 210, 222, 263
    • semantic 286, 312
  • ATR (Advanced Tongue Root) 51, 76–77, 100–101, 240–241
  • auto-antonym 8, 66

B

  • BLC (Basic Locative Construction) 8, 11–12, 74–82, 85–86, 88, 91–96, 108

C

  • caused motion events/verbs 14, 176, 235, 238, 243ff, 248–258
  • clause chaining 171–172, 175
  • collaboration 22–24, 27–28, 30–31, 34–37
  • complementation 198, 223, 286
  • complex predicates191
  • copula 44–47, 49–52, 54–59, 314–315, 318, 328–329, 335
  • constructions
    • basic locative BLC
    • copula 46, 51–52
    • double object 165, 167, 172, 175, 196, 198, 200–202, 206–208, 216–217
    • focus 45–49, 51–52, 131, 134, 137
    • multiverb 12, 171, 242–243, 256
    • possessive 45–46, 300–312
    • serial verb SVC
  • control 198, 222–223, 227–229, 232, 249

D

  • deictic center 241, 246–248, 252–253, 265
  • depictive 15, 31, 33, 314–315, 328, 330–335
  • deverbal nouns 15, 286–288, 300, 312
  • double object constructions constructions

E

  • eventive features 13, 193, 98, 202, 204, 206, 208, 211, 214, 219
  • event structure 13–14, 26, 34, 198, 200, 202, 214

F

  • Fieldwork 5, 10–11, 20–24, 31, 34–37
  • focus marker 11, 49–50, 58, 79–80, 93, 134

G

  • Gesture (co-speech) 26, 32–33, 35
  • grammaticalization 7, 11–12, 51, 55, 57–58, 99, 105, 107, 114, 118–119, 124, 128–129, 140–141, 145, 148–149, 193–194, 230

H

  • heterosemy 44, 56

I

  • ideophone 2–3, 9, 29, 31, 33, 36, 53, 62–64, 66–67, 69–70, 132
  • idioms 1, 64, 267

L

  • language contact 1, 154, 176, 177
  • language documentation 5, 10, 22, 24, 34–35
  • locative expressions 11, 44
  • locative predicates 8, 46–47, 74, 91, 95
  • locative verbs 8, 74–75, 78

M

  • methods 20–26, 29–31, 34–37
  • monosemy 7, 263, 267
  • motion event 170, 238–239, 247–249, 252–253

N

  • nominalization 10, 15, 134–135, 286–287, 290–291, 300, 318–319
  • noun classes 76, 102, 104, 117, 124

P

  • possession verb 238, 243, 253, 255–259
  • positional verb 8, 9, 44, 46, 50, 58–59, 61–62, 64–65, 67, 69–70, 74–76, 78, 81–82, 86–87, 93, 108
  • postposition 12, 77, 79–80, 86–87, 91, 93–94, 96, 99–100, 107–108, 117–120, 122–124, 128
  • predicate
    • main 141–142, 194–195
    • matrix 225–226, 228, 232, 234
    • primary/secondary 330–332
  • prepositions
    • ablative 107, 112–114, 128–129, 141
    • allative 93, 114–115, 143–145, 276, 279–280
    • associative 165, 169, 172
    • comitative 99, 107, 110–112, 124
    • dative 107, 116ff, 268, 273–275, 277, 281
    • multipurpose 167–169, 180
    • perlative 107, 114–115

R

  • reduced complements 222–223, 234
  • restructuring 199, 222, 226, 231, 233–234

S

  • secondary predicates 15, 173, 315–316, 328, 330–331, 334–335
  • semantic extension 11, 29, 44, 70
  • SVC (serial verb construction) 6–7, 13, 25–26, 76, 105–106, 111–112, 114, 116, 128, 130–131, 135–138, 142–143, 161, 169–175, 181–183, 189–200, 202–203, 208–212, 214–215, 219–223, 264–265, 279

T

  • TAM (Tense Aspect Mood) 13, 132, 141, 156, 159–160, 172, 180–181, 214, 240, 242, 256

V

  • verb semantics 10, 14, 245, 263, 267