Open AccessNominal KAŊ form in Basse Mandinka: Its cognitive mapping and taxonomical status (Part 2)
Author(s) -
Alexander Andrason
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
lingua posnaniesis/lingua posnaniensis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.124
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2083-6090
pISSN - 0079-4740
DOI - 10.2478/linpo-2014-0010
Subject(s) - grammaticalization , linguistics , attributive , locative case , cognitive grammar , proper noun , chaining , meaning (existential) , cognition , computer science , mathematics , philosophy , psychology , epistemology , neuroscience , psychotherapist
Purpose: T he present study, divided into a series of two papers, provides a detailed empirical description and cognitive-grammaticalization analysis of the meaning of a Mandinka verbal expression compounded of the non-verbal predicator be ‘be’, a verbal noun expressing a given action and the postposition kaŋ ‘on, at’ (so-called the Nominal KAŊ form)