Action nominalization: a view from Esahie (Kwa)

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dc.contributor.authorBroohm, Obed Nii
dc.contributor.authorMelloni, Chiara
dc.contributor.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4036-1962
dc.contributor.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4711-2689
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-05T16:04:47Z
dc.date.available2024-03-05T16:04:47Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-14
dc.description.abstractThe paper provides a comprehensive account of the derivation of action nominals in Esahie, a Ghanaian language of the Tano subgroup (Kwa, Niger-Congo) which has been undocumented thus far, especially as far as morphosyntactic phenomena are concerned. The aim of the research is threefold: to contribute to language documentation, to provide a systematic description and analysis of the morphosyntactic properties of Esahie action nominals, and to offer a typological assessment of these constructions. We argue that action nominalization in Esahie primarily involves a composite strategy: a morpho-syntactic operation, invariably involving affixation, and a concomitant prosodic operation in the form of a change in tonal melody. As far as the derivation of action nominals is concerned, it appears that in Esahie, tone raising is not simply a phonologically-conditioned prosodic effect, but plays a morphemic role. Further, depending on the arity of the base verb, nominalization may or may not be coupled with incorporation of the internal argument, which derives a form of synthetic compounding, as in the English truck-driving type. Based on the seminal works by Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 1993. Nominalizations. London: Routledge; Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2006. Nominalizations. In Encyclopedia of language and linguistics, vol. 8, 652–659. Boston: Elsevier, the current work argues that Esahie belongs to the possessive-incorporating subtype of the incorporating languages.
dc.identifier.citationBroohm, Obed Nii and Melloni, Chiara. "Action nominalization: a view from Esahie (Kwa)" Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, vol. 42, no. 1, 2021, pp. 27-62. https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2021-2013
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.knust.edu.gh/handle/123456789/15651
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWalter de Gruyter
dc.titleAction nominalization: a view from Esahie (Kwa)
dc.typeArticle
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