Basic and extended uses of posture verbs in Gurenɛ
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the basic postural meanings and extended locative uses of three posture verbs : gã ‘be lying’, zĩ ‘be sitting’, and ze’ ‘be standing’ in Gurenɛ (Gur, Niger-Congo) spoken in and around Bolga in Northern Ghana, West Africa. The paper explores the use of these ve...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
2012-05-01
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| Series: | CogniTextes |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/501 |