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Predication in African Languages
Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh
[Studies in Language Companion Series 235] 2024
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Introduction

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 | University of Amsterdam
Article outline
  • 1.The pathbreaker
    • 1.1Marginalia
    • 1.2Flipping the script
    • 1.3Going mainstream
      • 1.3.1Documentary linguistics
      • 1.3.2Tense, Aspect, and Mood
      • 1.3.3Verb phrase serialization
      • 1.3.4Semantics
      • 1.3.5Typology
      • 1.3.6Contact
  • 2.The papers
    • 2.1Fieldwork
    • 2.2Locative predication
    • 2.3Tense, Aspect, Mood and serialization
    • 2.4Verb semantics
    • 2.5Nominalization
  • References
Published online: 18 July 2024
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