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Department of Ga-Dangme

Department of Ga-Dangme

 

Recent Submissions

  • Adjective sequencing in Ga. 
    Ollennu, Y.A.A. (The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2017)
    The use of multiple words to describe nouns is a common phenomenon in language and languages that have adjectives mostly employ this word class. Ga, a Kwa language of the Niger Congo branch, is no exception, whereas languages ...
  • Literary analysis of selected Dangme War Songs 
    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. ...
  • Ditransitvity in Ga: A Lexical Functional Approach 
    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. D ...
  • Pragmatics of oyiwaladↄ ŋŋ (Thank you): The case of Ga 
    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 ...
  • Pragmatics of Na ‘see’ Perception Verb Expressions in Gӑ 
    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 ...
  • The Role of Listener’s Response Tokens Mm and Oh: The Case of Ga 
    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 ...
  • Metaphorical Extensions of Ye (eat) Verb: The Case of Gᾶ 
    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 ...
  • The position and meaning of interjections in Ga 
    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 ...
  • Ditransitvity in Ga: A lexical functional approach 
    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. ...
  • Negation in Dangme 
    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 ...