Akan
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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Akan; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.4 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: minimal information
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 1
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.4
Summary
It has been proposed that serial verb constructions in Akan may have developed from coordination, i.e. diachronically via pseudocoordination.
References
Lord, Carol. 1989. Syntactic reanalysis in the historical development of serial verb constructions in languages of West Africa. University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. dissertation.