Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgement vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Section 1. Fieldwork
7. Chapter 1. Linguistic fieldwork as team science 20
8. Section 2. Locative predication
9. Chapter 2. Locative expressions and their semantic extensions in Tima 44
10. Chapter 3. A comparative study of the basic locative construction in Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi, and Tongugbe 74
11. Chapter 4. Adposition classes in Tafi and Sɛlɛɛ 99
12. Chapter 5. Moving from verbs to prepositions in Gbe 128
13. Section 3. Tense, aspect, mood and serialization
14. Chapter 6. Lost siblings 154
15. Chapter 7. The eventive functional sequence 189
16. Chapter 8. Reduced complements 222
17. Section 4. Verb semantics
18. Chapter 9. Caused accompanied motion in a direction 238
19. Chapter 10. From injecting to planting 263
20. Section 5. Nominalization
21. Chapter 11. Constructions with verbal nouns in Iraqw 286
22. Chapter 12. Remarks on nominalised adjectives in Gã 314
23. Author index 339
24. Language index 341
25. Subject index 343