title: Adjectives and qualitative verbs in Akebu
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metadata.value: Makeeva, Nadezhda V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-04-25T16:01:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-25T16:01:14Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Makeeva N. V. Adjectives and qualitative verbs in Akebu. Vestnik SPbSU. Asian and African Studies, 2018, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 14–31.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu13.2018.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9463
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Akebu (< Kebu-Animere < Left Bank < Kwa < Niger-Congo) has a closed class of adjectives
  which consists of about 30 lexemes, most of which are lexically reduplicated. Adjectives can
  be used both as modifiers and as copula’s complements. Adjectives in Akebu have cross-linguistically
  rare morphosyntactic features. Firstly, when an adjective modifies the head noun
  in an NP it is incorporated between the noun stem and the suffixal noun class marker. Secondly, the copula used with adjectives differs from the one occurring with nouns and locative
  prepositional phrases in predicative position. Most adjectives are nominalized by conversion,
  but some adjectives derive nouns by full reduplication. In Akebu, a large number of lexemes
  with prototypically adjectival meanings are qualitative verbs. There is no evident semantic distribution
  between adjectives and verbs. At the same time, verbs share some morphosyntactic
  properties with true adjectives: like adjectives, they are incorporated between the noun stem
  and the suffixal noun class markers when used as nominal modifiers; like adjectives, they can
  be nominalized by means of reduplication. The resulting noun designates the subject of the action/
  state if the verb is intransitive and the object if the verb is transitive. These nouns can occur
  in periphrastic superlative constructions similarly to nouns derived from true adjectives.
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metadata.value: Работа выполнена в рамках проекта РНФ 17-78-20071.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 10; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kwa
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Akebu
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: adjectives
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: qualitative verbs
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: factative
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reduplication
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Adjectives and qualitative verbs in Akebu
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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