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Grammaticalised and non-grammaticalised conceptualisations of liyil �head� in Likpakpaln (Konkomba)

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dc.contributor.author Bisilki A.K.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-31T15:05:02Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-31T15:05:02Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.issn 2715309
dc.identifier.other 10.1016/j.langcom.2022.01.002
dc.identifier.uri http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/186
dc.description Bisilki, A.K., The University of Hong Kong/University of Education, Winneba, Ghana en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper qualitatively analyses the conceptualisations of the body part, head in Likpakpaln, an understudied Mabia (Gur), Niger-Congo language spoken on the North-Eastern corridors of Ghana. The analytical framework is a synthesis of grammaticalisation and conceptual metaphor theories. I establish that the head in Likpakpaln is unproductive for the grammaticalised, main pools of conceptual transfer. I examine the non-grammaticalised conceptualisation(s), too, under four salient semantic domains � luck, reasoning, emotion and personality traits. The head displays varying degrees of productivity for each of the four target domains. In all, I argue that the conceptualisations are filtered by lived-experiences, cultural construals and the language-specific lexical structure. The data provides further support for the embodied cultural prototype view of body part metaphor analysis. � 2022 Elsevier Ltd en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier Ltd en_US
dc.subject Conceptual transfer en_US
dc.subject Ghana en_US
dc.subject Grammaticalisation en_US
dc.subject Head en_US
dc.subject Konkomba en_US
dc.subject Likpakpaln en_US
dc.subject Mabia en_US
dc.title Grammaticalised and non-grammaticalised conceptualisations of liyil �head� in Likpakpaln (Konkomba) en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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