Serial Verb Nominalization in Akan: Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon: PDF Electronic Thesis (307 Pages)-gctid109015

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Serial Verb Nominalization in Akan: Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon

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Details: Serial Verb Nominalization in Akan: Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon
  PhD Thesis
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  This thesis focuses on nominalization of serial verb constructions  (SVCs) in the Akan language. The study develops a relevant typology of  serial verb nominalization on the basis of semantic integration and  lexicalization using a prototype theory (PT) framework. The three  degrees of semantic integration for serial verbs in Akan are Full  Lexicalized-Integrated Serial Verb Constructions (FL-ISVCs), Partial  Lexicalized-Integrated Serial Verb Constructions (PL-ISVCs) and Clause  Chaining Serial Constructions (CCs or CSCs). Each type of SVC is  analyzed on the basis of how it is nominalized, the degree to which  nominalization occurs and whether nominalization can occur at all.  Various corpuses were consulted in three major literary dialects of  Akan: Asante Twi, Fante and Akuapem Twi. Further, native speakers of  each of these dialects were consulted to ascertain the goodness of  various attested serial verb nominals (SVNs) in Akan.
  Because Full Lexicalized-Integrated Serial Verb Constructions behave as  lexicalized idioms, four criteria of idiomaticity are applied to them  including collocability, familiarity, flexibility and compositionality (Barkema 1996).  The results from the study show that over 98% of all FL-ISVCs  identified have nominal counterparts while less than 3% of all PL-ISVCs  identified have nominal counterparts. CSCs seem to nominalize  haphazardly as frozen sentences, proverbs, idioms and figures of speech  which primarily function as denotata and designata. While  there was some degree of interdialectal variability with regard to  individual SVNs, the pattern of nominalization behavior on the basis of  degrees of semantic integration and lexicalization remained consistent  across dialects.

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