Accam, M.D.K.(University of Education Winneba, 2022)
This thesis is a literary study of Dangme war songs. The work discussed the structure,
themes, and style in some Dangme war songs. The research discussed the aesthetic values
of these war songs among the people of Ada. ...
Akwele, Y; Amankwaa, O(Published in Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 2017)
The paper examines diathesis alternation of Ga and English ditransitives verbs. It discusses simple ditransitive
verbs found in English and compares them with Ga verbs that can be used in ditransitive constructions.
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Otoo, R(Published in African Journal of Applied Research, 2018)
The study considers the marker Oyiwaladɔŋŋ (thank you) in Ga ( Niger Congo, Kwa branch), under the expressive speech act and linguistic routine The marker has a variety of functions and explore the factors (social and ...
Otoo, R(Published in Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 2018)
The aim of this paper is to examine lexical semantics from a cognitive approach in Gӑ, a Kwa language. In Gӑ, the verb Na ‘see’ has polysemous and metaphorical uses. There has been linguistic research in Gᾶ and there is ...
Otoo, R(Published in Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018)
This paper aims to examine the functions of ‘Oh’ and ‘Mm’ as used in Ga, a Kwa language that is spoken in the southern part of Ghana. There has been linguistic research in Ga and there is still the interest to study the ...
Otoo, R(Published in International Journal of Linguistics, 2017)
The aim of this paper is to examine lexical semantics from a cognitive approach in Gᾶ, a Kwa language. In Gᾶ, the verb Ye ‘eat’ has polysemous and metaphorical uses. There has been linguistic research in Gᾶ and there is ...
Ollennu, Y. A. A.(Published in African Journal of Applied Research, 2017)
Interjections have been dealt with in language in various ways either as part of language or as non-words indicating feelings or state of mind. The paper focuses on interjections in Ga, a Kwa language of Niger Congo branch ...
Ollennu, Y.A.A(Published in Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 2017)
The paper examines diathesis alternation of Ga and English ditransitives verbs. It discusses simple ditransitive verbs found in English and compares them with Ga verbs that can be used in ditransitive constructions. ...
Caesar, R.O(Published in Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 2012)
This paper presents a descriptive analysis of negation in Dangme. It considers the negative
morpheme in Dangme, and how some of its allomorphs are used in the language. The segmental
variants of the negative morpheme in ...
Adomako, K(Published in Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 2012)
This paper discusses the derivational morphology of the Akan language with
particular focus on verbal nominalization through affixation (particularly
prefixation). There are two ways through which this nominalization ...
Adomako, K(Published in Legon Journal of the HUMANITIES, 2012)
This paper examines vowel raising in reduplication in Akan, a Niger Congo (Kwa) language, focusing on the Asante-Twi dialect. It has been
generally observed in Akan that in reduplicating CV stems, the stem
[+low] vowels ...
Adjei, F.A(Published in Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 2012)
Temperature phenomena are universal, easily perceptible by humans and basic in human
categorisation (Wierzbicka 1996). Their conceptualization however, differs from language to language
and involves a complex interplay ...
This paper offers a description and account of the patterns of ex-situ focus in Dagbani. We show that there are two syntactic strategies for creating ex-situ focus in the language, one involving A'-movement to the left ...
This paper discusses critical questions on the processing of non-native surrogate languages of the Dagbamba (Dagomba) of Ghana. The Dagbamba use the fiddle, talking drum and double bell to encode speech in Hausa, Akan and ...
Nzema refers to both the language and the people who speak it. The language is spoken predominantly among the people who occupy the South-west part of the Western Region of Ghana as well as some parts of Cote d'Ivoire ...
This paper investigates metonymic expressions that express MATURITY in the Mfantse dialect of Akan. Studies in English and Akan have demonstrated that, through metonym (and metaphor), concrete concepts and experiential ...
We provide a first documentation and analysis of anger metaphors in Likpakpaln, a little-studied Mabia (Gur) language, primarily spoken in Northern Ghana. We adopt Conceptual Metaphor Theory as the analytical framework for ...