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Directional extensions in Chadic languages

Directional extensions in Chadic languages

Lovestrand, Joseph

Hardcover

Linguistics

ISBN10: 3985541914
ISBN13: 9783985541911
Publisher: Language Science Press
Published: May 8 2026
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.92
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
This monograph provides the first large-scale comparative study of how verbal morphology encodes directionality across Chadic languages. Drawing on a database of 91 languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad, the book analyzes ventive, itive, vertical, and boundary-crossing extensions. The quantitative study examines where directional extensions occur and what meanings they can co-express, highlighting issues of multifunctionality and efficiency in grammar, as well as providing initial insights into their grammaticalization. The study advances the descriptive foundation of the least-documented Afroasiatic language family, while also contributing to theoretical discussions of motion events, verbal morphology, and morphosyntactic typology.

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