Talk:The Akan verb kɔ

I think the kɔ in the cases where it occurs before the main verb and after the subject should be glossed EGR for egressive, parallelling ba INGR ingressive. In the other cases where it follows another verb it is undoubtedly an independent verb in a serial construction. (Mary Esther Dakubu)

The term sɛnkuo is used in Akan to refer to all stringed instruments(chordophones) including the piano and keyboad. sɛnkuo could therefore be used to refer to a sanza!(John Ganaah)

Between the INGR for ingressive and EGR for egressive glossing of kɔ, the lexical semantics of kɔ suggests an 'exiting' from the action than 'entering' into the action. I therefore think along the same lines as the contributor Mary Esther Dakubu.

I was wondering whether these are all the meanings associated with the use of kɔ in Akan? The reason is that kɔ can also occur in verbal compound constructions such as Yɛ didikɔmeaning we keep on eating and Yaw kikakɔ meaning Yaw keeps saying,where it does not just indicate directionality but intensity and continuity of the action?

Secondly, I see that kɔ, apart from occuring in simplex sentences as the main verb or head, it can also occur as an adjunct. For example bɔkɔ meaning play away and dɔkɔ meaning weed away.

There are also some nominalised constructions in which kɔ occurs and the meaning it elicits is associated with an idiomatic use. An example is Nana no kɔakuraa meaning the chief is dead.