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Department of Akan-Nzema Education

Department of Akan-Nzema Education

 

Recent Submissions

  • Verbal nominalization as a derivational process: The case of Akan 
    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 ...
  • Vowel raising in Akan reduplication 
    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 ...
  • The semantic extensions of tu "to uproot"/"to pull out" in Nzema discourse: A conceptual metaphoric perspective 
    Yakub M. (Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2021)
    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 ...
  • Conceptualizing maturity in the mfantse dialect of akan 
    Dawson-Ahmoah G.N.A.; Wonkyi P.N. (Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2021)
    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 ...