Chapter 4 contributes to the sociohistorical study of 'for' and lends support to the argument that, as a general spatial gram, 'for' is comparable to locative structures in Niger-Congo coastal languages. The study focuses on extended uses of 'for' that include associative functions when the item co-occurrs with the locative copula 'de'. Chapter 3 analyzes polysemous locative functions of 'for' in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English from a cognitive linguistic perspective.
It discusses nominal-derived spatial grams in Ghanaian Student Pidgin and reveals motivations and constraints on the use of 'for' in the description of topological spatial relations. Chapter 2 introduces semantic typology to the study of West African pidgin and creole languages. It discusses aspects of locative predication in the pidgin and creoles languages that are derived from areal features in Niger-Congo languages.
Chapter 1 surveys typological aspects of locative predication among Atlantic, Mande, Kru, Benue-Kwa, Ijoid, and Portuguese-lexifier creole and English-lexifier pidgin and creole languages. The research presented in this thesis provides insight into four areas in the study of locative predication in Nigerian Pidgin and Ghanaian Pidgin English.
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