BA (Ghana), M.Phil (Trondheim), Ph.D (Lancaster)
Dissertation title: Construction Morphology: Issues in Akan Complex Nominal Morphology
Morphology, morpho-phonology, syntax
LNGS 101: Introduction to Linguistics
LNGS 102: The structure of English words
LNGS 202: Introduction to syntax
LNGS 203: Morphology
LNGS 305: Phonology of English
LNGS 304: Morphology and syntax of Akan
LNGS 412: Semantics of Akan
LNGS 404: Morphological Theory
LNGS 612: Trends in Linguistics
LNGS 711: Issues in Morphological Analysis
LNGS 712: Theories of Morphology
Book chapters
Kambon, Obadele Bakari, Clement Kwamina Insaidoo Appah & Reginald Akuoko Duah. (2018). Serial verb nominalization in Akan: The question of intervening elements. In E. Clem, P. Jenks & H. Sande (eds.), Theory and description in African Linguistics: Selected papers from ACAL 47 (361–386). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Appah, C. K. I. (2005), 'Action Nominalization in Akan', in M. E. Kropp Dakubu and E.K.A. Osam (eds.), Studies in the languages of the Volta Basin: Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project. Vol. 3. Accra: Linguistics Department, University of Ghana), 132-42.
Appah, C. K. I. (2004), 'Nominal derivation from Noun Phrases in Akan', in M. E. Kropp Dakubu and E.K. Osam (eds.), Studies in the languages of the Volta Basin: Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project. Vol. 2. Accra: Linguistics Department, University of Ghana), 166-82.
Book Section
• Kambon, O. B., Duah, R. A., & Appah, C. K. I. (2019). Serial verb nominalization in Akan: The question of intervening elements. In E. Clem, P. Jenks, & H. Sande (Eds.), Theory and description in African Linguistics: Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (pp. 395–422). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Book Review
• Appah, C. K. I. (2020). Book Review: Therapeutic Communication Competencies for Nurses and Midwives. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 9(1), 97-103. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v9i1.5
Journal articles
• Appah, C. K. I., & Ansah, G. N. (2020). The structure and formation of Dumsor and Dumsor-based neologisms: A constructionist account. Ghana Studies, 23.
• Lawer, R. A., & Appah, C. K. I. (2020). Noun-Noun Compounds in Dangme. SKASE Journal for Theoretical Linguistics, 17(2), 2-22.
• Appah, C. K. I. (2019). Analytical issues in the study of Verb-Noun compounds: How does Akan fit in? Acta Linguistica Academica, 66(1), 1-29. doi:10.1556/2062.2019.66.1.1
• Appah, C. K. I. (2019). On rank and successor relations: numerical and non-numerical expression of relative position in Akan. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 16(4), 2-21.
• Appah, C. K. I. (2019). Ordinal numeral constructions in Akan. Constructions, 1/2019, 1-12.
• Appah, C. K. I. (2019). A Survey of exocentric compounds in three Kwa languages: Akan, Ewe and Ga. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 8(2), 1-26. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v8i2.1
• Appah, C. K. I., & Anderson, J. A. (2019). Lexical inventiveness in Ghanaian Socio-political Discourse: The form, meaning and motivation for Dumsor and Dumsor-based neologisms. Contemporary Journal of African Studies, 6(2), 23-53. doi:https:// dx.doi.org/10.4314/contjas.v6i2.2
• Appah, C. K. I., Broohm, O. N., & Lawer, R. A. (2019). Beyond cardinals and ordinals: A constructionist account of other numerals in Akan. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 28(2), 1-27.
• Amfo, N. A. A., & Appah, C. K. I. (2019). Lexicalization of Akan diminutives: Form, Meaning and Motivation. Linguistik Online, 94(1), 3-18. doi:https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.94.5431
• Appah, C. K. I. (2017). Exocentric compounds in Akan. Word Structure, 10(2), 139-172. doi:10.3366/word.2017.0106
• Appah, C. K. I. (2017). On holistic properties of morphological constructions: the case of Akan verb-verb nominal compounds. Acta linguistica hafniensia, 49(1), 12-36. doi:10.1080/03740463.2016.1242331
• Appah, C. K. I. (2017). Personal attribute nominal construction in Akan: A Construction Morphology account. Legon Journal of the Humanities, 28(2), 49-72. doi:10.4314/ljh.v28i2.3
• Appah, C. K. I., Duah, R. A., & Kambon, O. B. (2017). Akan Noun-Verb compounds: The exocentric synthetic view. Language Sciences, 64, 1-15. doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2017.05.001
• Appah, C. K. I. (2016b). Noun-Adjective compounds in Akan. Lingue e linguaggio, XV(2), 259-284. doi:10.1418/84978
• Appah, C. K. I. (2016). A short note on the typology of exocentric compounds. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 13(1), 107-113. Retrieved from http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL31/pdf_doc/07.pdf
• Appah, C. K. I. (2016). Akan Verb-Noun Compounds. Italian Journal of Linguistics, 28(2), 3-24.
• Appah, C. K. I. (2015). On the syntactic category of Akan compounds: A product-oriented perspective. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 62(4), 361-394. doi:10.1556/064.2015.62.4.1
• Appah, C. K. I. (2013). The case against A-N compounding in Akan. Journal of West African Languages, XL(1), 73-87.
• Appah, C. K. I., & Amfo, N. A. A. (2011). The Morphopragmatics of the Diminutive Morpheme (-ba/-wa) in Akan. Lexis [Online], 6 | 2011: Diminutives and Augmentatives in the Languages of the World, 85-103. doi:10.4000/lexis.437
• Appah, C. K. I. (2009). The representation of ISVC in C and F structures of LFG: A proposal. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 6(1), 92–117.
• Appah, C. K. I. (2005). Action Nominalization in Akan. In M. E. Kropp Dakubu & E. K. Osam (Eds.), Studies in the languages of the Volta Basin: Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project (Vol. 3, pp. 132-142). Accara: Linguistics Department, University of Ghana.
• Appah, C. K. I. (2004). Nominal derivation from Noun Phrases in Akan. In M. E. Kropp Dakubu & E. K. Osam (Eds.), Studies in the languages of the Volta Basin: Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project (Vol. 2, pp. 166-182). Accra: Linguistics Department, University of Ghana.
2018 Languages in Ghana. delivered to visiting undergraduate students from James Madison University, USA., 11th June 2018. Language Centre, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra
2018 Language and Communication in Ghana. Delivered to visiting students from Colorado State University, as part of their Epistemology Course on their Semester at Sea programme, 3rd April 2018. University of Ghana
2017 Languages in Ghana. delivered to visiting undergraduate students from James Madison University, USA., 14 June 2017. Language Centre, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra.
2017 Managing your supervisor, Presented at a seminar for graduate students in the school of Languages, University of Ghana. 31st August 2017.
2017 Career opportunities in the field of Languages and Linguistics, Presented at the Career Week Celebrations at the University of Ghana, organized by the Careers and Counseling Centre, University of Ghana. 1st March 2017.
2017 Web presence for Linguists, Linguistic Association of Ghana (LAG) workshop. 13th January 2017, held at the Valley View University, Oyibi, Accra-Ghana.
2016 A Journey through compounds in Ghanaian languages: the highways, potholes, speed rumps and the Akan satnav, delivered at Dipartimento Culture e Civiltà at Università Degli Studi Di Verona, Italy. 24th November 2016.
2016 The structure of Akan, delivered at Dipartimento Culture e Civiltà at Università Degli Studi Di Verona, Italy. 24th November 2016.
2016 Language and health care delivery in Ghana, delivered to visiting students from Boston University, USA and Lancaster University, UK. 15th July 2016, at Lancaster University, Ghana campus, East Legon, Accra.
2016 Language and society, the Ghana situation, delivered to visiting students from Boston University, USA and Lancaster University, UK. 1st July 2016, at Lancaster University, Ghana campus, East Legon, Accra.
2016 Phonetics 101 for the singer, at the New year Voice College (NVC) organized by Gramophone Ghana for singers and choirmasters, on 28th May 2016 at LECIAD, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra-Ghana.
2016 Using technology to enhance teaching and research, Linguistic Association of Ghana (LAG) workshop. 15th January 2016, held at the Dominion University, Accra-Ghana.
2015 Language and communication in Ghana, delivered to visiting students from Lancaster University, UK. 31st August 2015, at the Lancaster University, Ghana campus, East Legon, Accra.
2015 Language and Communication in Ghana. Delivered at the Orientation Program for students on the University of California Education Abroad Program. 2nd September 2015. International House, University of Ghana.
2014 Language and Communication in Ghana. Delivered at the Orientation Program for students on the University of California Education Abroad Program. August 2014. International House, University of Ghana.
2013 Ghanaian Language, the key to our cultural heritage, delivered at the cultural week celebration of the Mothercare School (Burma camp, Accra) on 15th November 3013.
2013 Language and Communication in Ghana. Delivered at the Orientation Program for students on the University of California Education Abroad Program. 26th July 2013. International House, University of Ghana.
2010 Guest speaker at the launch of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) endowment fund at Marlborough House, London-UK (May 5, 2010).
Personal attribute nominal in Akan. Presented at the Second School of Languages Conference (SOLCON II). Accra – Ghana, 24-27 October 2017.
Deaf-Specific proverbs in Ghanaian Sign Language. Presented at the Second School of Languages Conference (SOLCON II). . Accra – Ghana, 24-27 October 2017, with Timothy Mac-Hadjah.
Compounding in Esahie. Presented at the Linguistic Association of Ghana (LAG) 2016 conference. Tamale – Ghana, 26th-28th July 2016.
Compounding in Ewe. Presented at the Linguistic Association of Ghana (LAG) 2016 conference. Tamale – Ghana, 26th-28th July 2016.
Exocentricity in Three Kwa languages: Akan, Ewe and Ga. Presented at the First School of Languages Conference (SOLCON1). Accra – Ghana, 27-29 October 2015.
Synthetic compounds in Gurene. Presented at the First School of Languages Conference (SOLCON1). Accra – Ghana, 27-29 October 2015 (with Helen Atipoka Adongo).
Action nominalization in Akan: the case against the percolation-based approach. Presented at the First School of Languages Conference (SOLCON1). Accra – Ghana, 27-29 October 2015 (with Kwasi Adomako).
Holistic properties of morphological constructions: Evidence from Akan. Presented at the 16th International Morphology Meeting (IMM16). Budapest – Hungary, May 29 - June 1, 2014.
Holistic properties of morphological constructions: Evidence from Akan. Presented at the 12th Faculty of Arts Colloquium. University of Ghana – Legon, 24-25 April, 2014.
Exocentric compounds in Akan: a constructionist perspective. Presented at the 11th Faculty of Arts Colloquium. Legon, 16-17 April, 2013.
Reduplication as a detransivizing strategy in Akan: a preliminary observation. A paper presented at the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 10-12 June, 2011.
Lexicalization of Akan diminutive forms: Accounting for the Motivation. A paper presented at the 12th International Pragmatics Conference, 3-8 July, 2011, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (with Nana Aba Amfo).
Argument inheritance in Deverbal nominals in Akan. A paper presented at the 4th LAEL Postgraduate Conference on Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, 2nd July, 2009.
Compounding in Akan. A poster presented at the Universals and Typology in Word-Formation, Košice-Slovakia, 16-18 August, 2009.
The Morphology and Syntax of Action Nominals in Akan. In 4th Language at the University of Essex Postgraduate Conference (LangUE 4), University of Essex, Colchester, 11-12th June 2009.
Derived Action nominals as adverbials in Akan. A paper presented at the 2nd Conference on Applied linguistics. Organized by the Department of Applied linguistics, University of Education, Winneba, 27th - 28th November, 2006.
Linguistics and the job market. A paper presented at the 4th Faculty of Arts Colloquium, UG, 27th - 28th April 2006 (with Edward Apenteng-Sackey & Kofi Agyekum).