Ebook: Prepositions in Krio

Publisher: Peter Svenonius' Adpositions Seminar at the University of Yromsø
Publication date: 2005-2006
Number of pages: 19This paper is part of Peter Svenonius’ Adpositions Seminar at the University of Tromsø which was taught in 2005-2006. The main focus was the distinction between locative path and locative place constructions. The aim of this paper is descriptive in nature and focuses on the complete prepositional system of Krio, an English-based Creole language spoken in Sierra Leone. The paper starts with a general introduction to prepositions in Krio. Three different categories are distinguished. This is followed by a description of each preposition individually and a discussion of intransitive prepositionsand verb-particle constructions.