A cognitive-grammaticalization model of the BE NAA... LA construction in Basse Mandinka
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The topic of the present study is an analytic verbal expression (exemplified in 1, below) that is commonly employed in Basse Mandinka, a regional variety of the Gambian Mandinka language. This construction is formed by the non-verbal locative predicator be ‘be’ (in the negative te), the verb naa ‘come’, the base of a “meaning” verb1 and the infinitive marker la ‘to’. This locution – in accordance with its formal properties and, especially, the shape of the three invariant components – will be referred to as the ‘BE NAA...LA’2:
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