University of Ghana

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Ghana*

Title

Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages

Edited by Felix K. Ameka & Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 100] 2008. ix, 335 pp. | edited volume

Agyekum, Kofi 2025 Akan water metaphors, idioms, and proverbs

Keywords: cultural linguistics | conceptual metaphors | water metaphor | proverbs | idioms

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 12:2 pp. 346–376 | article

Atintono, Samuel A., Dorothy Agyepong & Promise Kpoglu 2024 A comparative study of the basic locative construction in Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi, and Tongugbe

Keywords: Basic Locative Construction | locative verbs | Gurenɛ | Asante-Twi | Tongugbe

In: Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James & Enoch O. Aboh (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 235] pp. 74–98

Bobuafor, Mercy & Yvonne Agbetsoamedo 2024 Adposition classes in Tafi and Sɛlɛɛ

Keywords: adposition | grammaticalization | Kwa | Tafi | Sɛlɛɛ

In: Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James & Enoch O. Aboh (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 235] p. 99

Ansah, Gladys Nyarko 2024 Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/interpreting proverbs in a second language

Keywords: Akan | English | L2 | metaphors | proverbs

In: Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics: State of the art, Belkhir, Sadia (ed.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 16] pp. 132–171

Sulemana, Abdul-Razak 2024 Reduced complements

Keywords: Bùlì | Control | Reduced complements | Restructuring | Serial verb constructions

In: Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James & Enoch O. Aboh (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 235] pp. 222–235

Agyekum, Kofi 2024 The ethnopragmatics of Akan leave-takings and farewells

Keywords: leave-taking | farewell | dialogic action game | expressives | politeness | persuasion

Language and Dialogue 14:3 pp. 403–427 | article

Sulemana, Abdul-Razak 2024 Passive without morphology: A case for implicit arguments

Keywords: Bùlì | implicit argument | movement | short passive | smuggling | syntax

Linguistic Variation 25:1 pp. 168–200 | article

Koblitz, Carola & Adams Bodomo 2024 Multilingualism, identity, and diversity: The iLanguage perspective: embracing diversity in youth multilingualism

In: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective, Bodomo, Adams & Carola Koblitz (eds.) [FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 21] pp. 45–69

Bodomo, Adams & Carola Koblitz 2024 Introduction

In: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective, Bodomo, Adams & Carola Koblitz (eds.) [FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 21] pp. 1–5

Campbell, Akua 2024 Sequentiality: A novel use of the perfect in Gã

Keywords: Gã | perfect | sequential | modal | grammaticalization

Studies in Language 48:4 pp. 781–812 | article

Brookes, Heather, Dorothy Agyepong, Michelle White & Sefela Yalala 2024 The development of speech and gesture in Sesotho narratives

Keywords: gesture | speech | development | narratives | Sesotho

Gesture 22:3 pp. 233–261 | article

Chen, Pin-Hsi Patrick, Kwaku Owusu Afriyie Osei-Tutu & Neda Taherkhani 2023 A cross-linguistic syntactic analysis of telicity in motion predicates in Southern Tati, Mandarin, and Ghanaian Student Pidgin

Keywords: cross-linguistic | motion predicates | telicity | Mandarin | Tati | Ghanaian Student Pidgin | motion events

Studies in Language 47:4 pp. 900–956 | article

Campbell, Akua & Samuel Gyasi Obeng 2023 Language and power: Discursive strategies employed by interpreters in Ghanaian district courts

Keywords: interpreting | Ghana | language | power | liberty | courtroom discourse

Interpreting 26:1 pp. 55–79 | article

Agyekum, Kofi 2023 Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions on Yiedie “wellbeing” in Akan

Keywords: conceptual metaphor | ethnopragmatics | emotions | wellbeing | proverbs | Akan

Pragmatics and Society 14:1 pp. 1–22 | article

Abubakari, Hasiyatu, Samuel Alhassan Issah, Samuel Owoahene Acheampong, Moses Dramani Luri & John Naporo Napari 2023 Mabia languages and cultures expressed through personal names

Keywords: personal names | Mabia languages | anthroponyms | semantics | ethnopragmatics

International Journal of Language and Culture 10:1 p. 87 | article

Orfson-Offei, Elizabeth 2021 Autism spectrum disorder and language choice in Ghana

Keywords: autism | Ghana | community of practice | cultural capital | language choice | bilingualism

Pragmatics and Society 12:2 pp. 288–308 | article

Amuzu, Evershed K., Akua Campbell & Seth Ofori 2020 “That’s not my understanding”: Interpretation in the Ghanaian multilingual court

Keywords: multilingualism | courts | interpreting | translation | accuracy | Ghana

Language and Dialogue 10:3 pp. 389–421 | article

Agyekum, Kofi 2019 The ethnopragmatics of Akan advice

Keywords: Akan | advice | ethnopragmatics | cultural scripts | directives | expressives | persuasion | proverbs

Pragmatics 29:3 pp. 309–331 | article | open access

Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah, Ekua Essumanma Houphouet, Eugene K. Dordoye & Rachel Thompson 2018 “Insanity is from home”: The expression of mental health challenges in Akan

Keywords: Akan | Ghana | idioms | indirection | mental health | proverbs

International Journal of Language and Culture 5:1 pp. 1–28 | article

Agyekum, Kofi 2017 The language of Akan herbal drug sellers and advertisers

Keywords: Akan | mixed game model | persuasion | advertising | rhetorical strategies | commissives | directives

Language and Dialogue 7:3 pp. 360–386 | article

Agyekum, Kofi 2016 Bodily state and metaphors relating to ho, ‘body’, in Akan

Keywords: metaphor | emotion | embodiment | cognitive semantics | body-part language

Metaphor and the Social World 6:2 pp. 326–344 | article

Agyekum, Kofi 2015 Metaphors of Anger in Akan

Keywords: embodiment | emotion | anger | cognitive semantics | metaphor

International Journal of Language and Culture 2:1 p. 87 | article

Agyekum, Kofi 2012 The ethno-pragmatics of “amannebɔ” in Akan

Keywords: amanneb | politeness | narratives | face | communicative competence

Language and Dialogue 1:2 pp. 243–265 | article

Osam, E. Kwekuk 2009 Review of Language and national identity in Africa edited by Andrew Simpson (2008)

Studies in Language 33:3 pp. 776–780 | book review

Anderson, Jemima 2009 Codifying Ghanaian English: Problems and prospects

In: World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas & Lucia Siebers (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G40] pp. 19–36

Fretheim, Thorstein & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo 2008 'Abroad' and semantically related terms in some European languages and in Akan (Ghana)

In: Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan Mackenzie & Elsa M. González Álvarez (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 175] pp. 173–191

Fretheim, Thorstein & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo 2008 Reference, determiners and descriptive content

In: Essays on Nominal Determination: From morphology to discourse management, Høeg Müller, Henrik & Alex Klinge (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 99] pp. 337–364

Agyekum, Kofi 2004 The socio-cultural concept of face in Akan communication

Pragmatics & Cognition 12:1 pp. 71–92 | article

Dako, Kari 2001 Ghanaianisms: Towards a semantic and a formal classification

English World-Wide 22:1 pp. 23–53 | article

Gyekye, Kwame 1977 Akan Language and the Materialist Thesis: A Short Essay on the Relation Between Philosophy and Language

Studies in Language 1:2 pp. 237–244 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.