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Department of Gur-Gonja Education

Department of Gur-Gonja Education

 

Recent Submissions

  • Subject and non-subject ex-situ focus in Dagbani 
    Issah S.A.; Smith P.W. (Ubiquity Press, 2020)
    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 ...
  • Linguistic Surrogacy with Minimal Semantics among the Dagomba of Ghana 
    Hudu F. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2021)
    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 ...
  • 'The heart has caught me': Anger metaphors in Likpakpaln (Konkomba) 
    Bisilki A.K.; Yakpo K. (Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2021)
    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 ...