On the properties of Emai's khi copula construction

This paper examines the equational identity (El) construction in Nigeria's Edoid language Emai. It weighs this construction's grammatical properties against a complex of equational identity patterns developed in the crosslinguistic investigations of Stassen (1997). Although EI properties r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ronald P. Schaefer, Francis O. Egbokhare
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 2003-06-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107346