176pp., paperback, NiSC, Makhanda, 2025

ISBN: 9781991458131

Reginald Akuoko Duah describes and analyses the formal types of causative expressions found in the different Kwa languages.

"Causatives in Kwa presents an excellent and very useful overview of causative constructions in Kwa languages, provides lots of interesting data, and also offers insightful, theoretically informed and original analyses of the syntax of analytical causatives in Akan and the semantics of different causative event types." Professor Jochen Zeller, University of KwaZulu-Natal

"Duah’s book provides an excellent excursion of causatives and serial verbs in Kwa languages with good evidence to demonstrate how the two constructions differ. He methodically and systematically offers acute evidence to demonstrate that these two constructions may superficially look similar but are nonetheless syntactically different." Professor Rose Letsholo-Tafila, University of Botswana

Reginald Akuoko Duah is a senior lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon.

CAUSATIVES IN KWA, an intragenetic typology

: Duah (R.)

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