Clement Appah

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About Clement Appah

Courses taught: 1. Intro. to Linguistics 2. Morphology 3. Syntax 4. Phonetics/Phonology of Akan 5. Morphology/Syntax of Akan 6. Morphological Theory My interests: 1. Linguistic Theory 2. The grammar of Akan 3. Nominal Derivation 4. The grammar of numeral constructions PAPERS Appah, CKI & Ansah, GN (2020). The structure and formation of Dumsor and Dumsor-based neologisms: A constructionist account. Ghana Studies, 23:28-55. Lawer, RA & Appah, CKI (2020). Noun-Noun Compounds in Dangme. SKASE JTL 17(2):2-22. Appah, CKI, & Anderson, JA (2019). Lexical inventiveness in Ghanaian Socio-political Discourse: The form, meaning and motivation for Dumsor and Dumsor-based neologisms, CJAS, 6(2):23-53. Appah, CKI (2019). Exocentric compounds in three Kwa languages: Akan, Ewe and Ga. GJL, 8(2):1-26 Appah, CKI (2019). On rank and successor relations: numerical and non-numerical expression of relative position in Akan. SKASE JTL, 16(4):2-21. Appah, CKI, Broohm, ON & Lawer, RA (2019.). Beyond cardinals and ordinals: A Constructionist account of other numeral constructions in Akan. NJAS, 28(2):1-27 Appah, CKI (2019). Ordinal numeral constructions in Akan. Constructions+, 1/2019, 11pp. Appah, CKI (2019). Analytical issues in the study of Verb-Noun compounds: How does Akan fit in? AL Academica, 66(1):1–29. Amfo, NAA & Appah CKI (2019). Lexicalization of Akan diminutive forms: Accounting for the motivation. LO. 94(1):3-18 Appah, CKI (2016a). Akan Verb-Noun Compounds. IJL, 28(2). Appah, CKI (2016b). Noun-Adjective compounds in Akan. Lingue e linguaggio, XV(2):259-284. Appah, CKI (2016c). On holistic properties of morphological constructions: the case of Akan verb-verb nominal compounds. AL hafniensia Appah, CKI (2016d). A short note on the typology of exocentric compounds. SKASE JTL, 13(1):107-113 Appah, CKI (2015). On the syntactic category of Akan compounds: A product-oriented perspective. ALH 62(4):361-394 Appah, CKI (2013). The case against A-N compounding in Akan. Journal of West African languages, XL(1):73-87 Appah, CKI & Amfo, NAA (2011). The Morphopragmatics of the Diminutive Morpheme (-ba/-wa) in Akan. Lexis, 6:85-103 Appah, CKI (2009). The representation of ISVC in C and F structures of LFG: A proposal. SKASE JTL, 6(1):92–117 Appah, CKI (2005), Action Nominalization in akan. In M.E. Kropp Dakubu and E.K. Osam (Ed); Studies in the languages of the Volta Basin: Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project (SLAVOB). Vol.3:132-142 Appah, CKI (2004), Nominal derivation from Noun Phrases in akan. SLAVOB. Vol.2:166-182