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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 ...

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