Classroom:Consecutive Marker in SVC of Akan
This page was created as an in-classroom exercise in LING 2208 NTNU
By Miaomiao Zhang and John Gannah
From the TC database Akan Future Aspect, there were two occurrences of FUT-FUT aspect as in the examples below:
From the two examples we can see that when there are two subjects in the sentence, the FUT-FUT occurs.
In other cases, where the FUT-CONS occurs,there is only one subject of the event described by the string of verbs.
We found a total of 16 phrases which had the token we sought to investigate.Below is a statistical occurrence of the Future Aspect in Akan SVCs from the TC database.
Aspect Type | Frequency |
FUT-FUT | 2 |
FUT-PROG | 4 |
FUT-CONS | 10 |
References
- ↑ Boadi, L.A. (2008).Tense, aspect and Akan. In Ameka, F.K. and M.E. Kropp Dakubu (eds) Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages. Benjamins.