小组练习-苗苗的贡献
This page is about the aspect marker CONS in SVC of Akan. The examples are collected from TC database and articles by Boadi and Osam.
1. INF or CONS?
In Boadi’s article, he claims that the affix à indicates the INF verb form. But other linguists consider this affix as an aspect marker- CONS, because it can only occur after the PROG and FUT which request a certain agreement, namely, “concord”.
2. Data from TC database
From the TC database Akan Future Aspect, we can see that when there are two subjects in a SVC sentence with future aspect, two FUT markers will appear after respectively the first subject and the second subject, which we called the FUT-FUT pattern. In this pattern, the serial verbs obey the agreement of future tense, see examples as follows:
2.1 FUT-FUT pattern
| εbεyε | ||
| ε | bε | yε |
| 3SGINANIM | FUT | be |
| V | ||
| animguaseε |
| animguaseε |
| disgraceful |
| ADJ |
| sε |
| sε |
| COMPL |
| PRT |
| wobεsεe | ||
| wo | bε | sεe |
| 2SG | FUT | destroy |
| V | ||
| awareε |
| awareε |
| marriage |
| N |
2.2 Purpose FUT-CONS pattern
In other cases, when there is only one subject in the SVC sentence, the FUT-CONS pattern and PROG-CONS pattern occur. That is to say, the serial verbs in such patterns share the same subject. We also found that the CONS can occur in both purpose clause and clauses expressing consecutive actions.