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This monograph provides the first large-scale comparative study of how verbal morphology encodes directionality across Chadic languages. Drawing on a database of 91 languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad, the book analyzes ventive, itive, vertical, and boundary-crossing extensions. The quantitative study examines where directional extensions occur and what meanings they can co-express, highlighting issues of multifunctionality and efficiency in grammar, as well as providing initial insights into their grammaticalization. The study advances the descriptive foundation of the least-documented Afroasiatic language family, while also contributing to theoretical discussions of motion events, verbal morphology, and morphosyntactic typology.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics

• Full title: Directional extensions in Chadic languages
• Author: Joseph Lovestrand
• Series: Contemporary African Linguistics 15,
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 424
• EAN: 9783985541911
• ISBN: 3985541914
• ID: 52380902
• Publisher: Language Science Press
• Weight: 979 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 175 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. May 2026

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