Manu-Barfo, Esther Desiadenyo

Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana, 2021-

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, La Trobe University, Australia
Thesis Title: A Descriptive Grammar of the Dompo Language of Ghana

Master of Philosophy in Linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon
Thesis Title: The semantics and Pragmatics of emotion expressions among the Anlo-Ewes

Bachelor of Arts in English and Linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon

• Language documentation and description
• Linguistic Anthropology

• Language revitalization
• Second language acquisition (of the Dompo language)
• Artificial intelligence and its application to African languages and documentary linguistics

• LNGS 101: Introduction to linguistics
• LNGS 102: Structure of English words

Manu-Barfo, Esther D. (2019). On the status of Dompo, a critically endangered language in Ghana. Anthropological Linguistics, 61 (1): 94-102

• Language endangerment issues: the Dompo language of Ghana in perspective.
• The moribund Dompo language of Ghana: attempts, challenges and prospectives in its revitalization
• Ideophones, Interjections and Particles: their forms and uses in Dompo.
• Nouns, Noun Phrases and Nominal modifiers in Dompo.
• Dompo verbs and verbal modifiers.

• La Trobe University Full Fee Research Scholarship (LTUFFRS). (March 2016- April 2020).
• La Trobe University Post Graduate Research Scholarship. (March 2016- September 2019)
• HUSS Internal Research Grant Scheme field work travel grant. (October 2016 – March 2017, June – September 2018)
• Recipient of Social Research Assistance Platform grant to complete illustration work on two folktale books for my research on the Dompo language. (May 2019).
• Recipient of Postgraduate Travel Grant for AFSAAP (African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual Conference (November 2018).
• Recipient of DRP (Disciplinary Research Program) grant to attend a conference. (August 2017)
• Recipient of Faculty of Arts Dean’s thesis grant (2011-2012) 
• Recipient of 2012 IFRA-in Ghana small grant for fieldwork in the Social Sciences and the
• Humanities by the French Embassy in Ghana.