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This volume, Aspects of Akan Verbal Semantics, edited by E. Kweku Osam and Obádélé Bakari Kambon, explores the intricate semantics of verbs in the Akan language, offering fresh insights into their syntactic and semantic behaviors. The chapters delve into diverse verbal phenomena, including expressions of pain, lexical encoding of peeling events, posture verbs in locative constructions, perception verbs, and semantic integration in serial verb constructions. Utilizing frameworks such as cognitive semantics and the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), the contributors analyze how Akan verbs encode meaning, interact with cultural practices, and participate in argument alternations. The volume highlights crosslinguistic diversity in verbal semantics while emphasizing the rich linguistic and cultural specificity of Akan. This work serves as a valuable resource for linguists, educators, and researchers interested in African languages, semantics, and syntax.
