BA (Ghana) MA (Indiana), PhD (Ottawa)
(a). Undergraduate Level:
• General Linguistic Theory: morphology, syntax, phonetics, phonology, and semantics.
• Linguistics of a Ghanaian Language: Akan.
• Supervision of undergraduate Long Essays.
• Twi For Beginners (taught to American Exchange students since 1995)
• Twi Language course (taught at New York University Centre, Accra, since 2005)
b). Graduate Level:
• Phonological Theory.
• Theory of Syntax
• Theories of Second language learning
• Research Methods
• Advanced Syntax of Ghanaian languages (Akan)
• Supervision of undergraduate and graduate students’ projects a dissertations
RESEARCH/MAJOR PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN
(I) Aspects of the Syntax of the Akan Language:
(II) Acquisition of Certain Syntactic Processes in Akan by Children.
(III) Sentence Processing in Akan.
(IV) Studies in Akan syntax, Acquisition, and Sentence Processing (Ph.D. thesis, University of Ottawa, 1994).
(V) Formal vs. Processing Explanations of Syntactic Phenomena
(VI) Language and Nationalism in Colonial Ghana
(VII) Akan Dictionary Project
Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Tope Omoniyi, Nii Teiko Tagoe, Obadele Kambon & Kofi Korankye Saah. 2018. Therapeutic Communication Competencies for Nurses and Midwives.(In Press). Tema: Digibooks Ghana Ltd.
Saah, Kofi K. 2017. The null 3rd person object pronoun and the syntax of Akan. In Obeng, Samuel G. & Christopher R. Green (eds.) African Linguistics in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Paul Newman. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag , pp 107-126.
2015. Helen Goodluck, Kofi Saah & Frank Tsiwah. ‘In Akan, violation of island constraints cannot be reduced to sentence processing.’ Proceedings of the 2015 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association conference.
Yankah, Kwesi, Kofi K. Saah & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo (eds.). 2014. A Legon Reader in Linguistics. Barnbury, OX: Ayebia Clarke Publishing.
Saah, Kofi K. 2014. Reflexive Marking and Interpretation in Akan. In Yankah, Kwesi, Kofi K. Saah & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo (eds.) 2014. A Legon Reader in Linguistics. Barnbury, OX: Ayebia Clarke Publishing, pp.37-50.
2011. Kofi K. Saah and Kofi Baku. Do not rob us of ourselves: Language and nationalism in colonial Ghana. In Lauer, Helen, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Jemima Anderson (eds.) Identity Meets Nationality: Voices from the Humanities. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, pp 74-99.
2010. Kofi K. Saah. Relative Clauses in Akan. In Enoch O. Aboh & James Essegbey (eds.) Topics In Kwa Syntax (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 78). Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London: Springer, pp 91-107.
2010. Kofi K. Saah and E. Kweku Osam. “Adjectives and Qualification in the Languages of the Volta Basin: An overview.” Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 6.1, pp105-112.
2010. M. E. Kropp Dakubu, G. Akanlig-Pare, E. Kweku Osam & Kofi K. Saah, (Editors). Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 6 Parts 1 & 2.. Legon: Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana. ISBN:798-9988-8492-5-2
2007. M. E. Kropp Dakubu, G. Akanlig-Pare, E. Kweku Osam & Kofi K. Saah (Editors). Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 4 Parts 1&2. Legon: Departmetn of Linguistics, Univerfsity of Ghana.
2007. Kofi K. Saah. “Anaphora in Akan,” in M. E. Kropp Dakubu, G. Akanlig-Pare, E. Kweku Osam & Kofi K. Saah, editors). Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 4.2: 23-35.
2007. Christiana Pokuaa, E. Kweku Osam & Kofi K. Saah. “Adjective Sequencingin Akan: A preliminary Survey,” in M. E. Kropp Dakubu, G. Akanlig-Pare, E. Kweku Osam & Kofi K. Saah, (Editors). Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 4.1:140-149.
2007. Kofi K. Saah. LING 111: Introduction to Linguistics. Accra: Centre for distance Education, Institute of Adult education, University of Ghana, Legon. 224 pages.
2006. Akosua Anyidoho, Kweku Osam, Kofi Agyekum, E. Apenteng-Sackey, Kofi K. Saah & Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. Akan Dictionary: Pilot Project. Legon: Department of Linguistics.
2004. Kofi K. Saah. “A Survey of Akan Adverbs and Adverbials,” in Journal of West African Languages XXXI.2 (2004), pp.1-25.
2004. Kofi K. Saah & Paul Agbedor. “Adverbs in Akan and Ewe: A comparative study.”In Dakubu, M. E. K. & Kweku Osam (eds) Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin vol. 2. (Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project, 12-13 January 2004), pp. 202-216.
2003. Kofi K. Saah. “The Nature and Function of Akan Verbal Affixes,” in Dakubu, M. E. K. & Kweku Osam (eds) Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin vol. 1. (Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project, 406 December 2002), pp.180-196.
2002. Kofi K. Saah. “Children’s knowledge of the constraints on the use of the Akan third person object pronouns”, in Ameka, Felix K. & E. Kweku Osam (eds.) New Directions in Ghanaian Linguistics. Accra: Black Mask Ltd., pp.213-241.
1997. Kofi K. Saah & Ejike Eze. “Double Objects in Akan and Igbo”, in Dechaine, Rose-Marie & Victor Manfredi, eds. in Object Positions in Benue-Kwa: Papers from a workshop at Leiden University, June 1994.
1995. Kofi K. Saah & Helen Goodluck. "Island Effects in Parsing Grammar: Evidence from Akan", The Linguistic Review 12:381-409.
1995. Helen Goodluck, Kofi K. Saah, and Danijela Stojanovic. "On Default Mechanism for Interrogative Binding", Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 40.4: 377-468.
1995. Kofi K. Saah . "Negation in Akan", Niger-Congo Syntax and Semantics 6: 153-168.
1992. Kofi K. Saah. "Null Object Constructions in Akan", MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 17: 219-244.
1989. Kofi K. Saah. "Reflexivization in Akan", Journal of West African Languages, XIX, 2: 15-28.
1988. Kofi K. Saah. "Wh-Questions in Akan", Journal of West African Languages, XVIII. 17-28.
1987. Kofi K. Saah. "Alternative Questions in Akan", Papers in Ghanaian Linguistics, 6: 4-51.
1986. Kofi K. Saah. "Language Use and Attitudes in Ghana", Anthropological Linguistics, Fall, pp.367-377.
Textbooks
2007. Kofi K. Saah. LING 111: Introduction to Linguistics. Accra: Centre for Distance Education, Institute of Adult Education, University of Ghana.
2011. Kofi K. Saah. LING 332: Syntax. Accra: Institute of Continuing and Distance Learning, (ICDE), University of Ghana Legon (In press)
1992. F. Dolphyne, Christopher Jacques & Kofi K. Saah. English Language for Senior Secondary Schools, Ghana. Book 3. Longman, 185 pages
1992. F. Dolphyne, Christopher Jacques & Kofi K. Saah. English Language for Senior Secondary Schools, Ghana. Book 2. Longman, 216 pages
1991. F. Dolphyne, Christopher Jacques & Kofi K. Saah. English Language for Senior Secondary Schools, Ghana. Book 1. Longman, 215 pages.
ACADEMIC AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS AND HONOURS
1997/98. Visiting Scholarship, Utrecht University.
April 1994. Arnold Smith Commonwealth Scholarship for Academic Excellence, awarded by the Royal Commonwealth Society, Ottawa Branch.
1992. Special Scholarship, School of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Ottawa.
1990 - 1992. University of Ottawa Graduate Entrance Scholarship.
1982 - 1984. University of Ghana/Ghana Government Scholarship for Graduate studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.