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Variation in infants’ preference for infant-directed speech (with Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, and Paul Okyere Omane, University of Potsdam)Typology of causatives in Kwa (Book-length manuscript)Semantics of (In)definite combinations (with Mira Grubic, University of Potsdam, and Agata Renans, Ruhr-University, Bochum)Definiteness across domains and languages (with Mira Grubic, University of Potsdam, and Agata Renans, Ruhr-University, Bochum)Numerals in Akan (with Clement Appah and Obadele Kambon, University of Ghana)Serial Verb Nominalization: Features and constraints (book-length manuscript with Obadele Kambon)
COURSES TAUGHT
Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana
Undergraduate
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Department of Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology, University of Ghana
Postgraduate
Department of Akan and Nzema Education, University of Education, Winneba
Postgraduate
Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
University Study Abroad Consortium (USAC), University of Ghana
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PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Duah, Reginald Akuoko. On reduplicated verbs as morphological causatives in Akan. The Frankfurter Afrikanistisches Blätter (FAB) 30, 121-136.
Duah, Reginald Akuoko, E. Kweku Osam and Nana Aba Amfo. 2021. Event types and (in)directness of causation in Akan. Cognitive Semantics 7, 54-84.
Duah, Reginald Akuoko and Obadele Kambon. On the structure of analytic causatives in Akan. 2020. Journal of West African Languages 47(2), 1-22.
Duah, Reginald Akuoko and Stefan Savic. 2020. Tense or aspect? Semantics of the verbal suffix (-V) in Akan. SKASE – Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 17(2), 77-94.
Mira Grubic, Agata Renans and Reginald Akuoko Duah. 2019. Focus, exhaustivity and existence in Akan, Ga and Ngamo. Linguistics 57(1), 221-268. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2018-0035
Kambon, Obadele and Reginald Akuoko Duah. 2017. Non-African Linguistics Be Like “This is a New Way to Quote!”. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 6(2), 85-115. DOI: 10.4314/gjl.v6i2.5
Appah, Clement K. I., Reginald Akuoko Duah and Ọbádélé Kambon. 2017. Akan Noun–Verb Nominal Compounds: The Exocentric Synthetic View. Language Sciences 64, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2017.05.001
Duah, Reginald Akuoko. 2015. Exhaustive Focus Marking in Akan. Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 19, 1-28.
Osam, E. Kweku, Reginald Akuoko Duah and Afua M. Blay. 2011. The So-Called Postpositions in Akan: A Reconsideration. Journal of West African Languages XXXVII (2): 107-118.
(under review)
Appah, Clement K.I., Reginald Akuoko Duah and Obadele Kambon. The construction of cardinal numerals in Akan. Studies in African Linguistics.
Book Chapters
Duah, Reginald Akuoko and Sarah Marjie. 2012. Code-Switching in Written Communication: Factors and Motivations. In Lauer, Helen and Joana Boampong (eds.), Creating in Diversity: Exploring our Differences for Nationhood (pp. 97 – 121). Accra. Sub-Saharan Publishers.
Duah, Reginald Akuoko, Abigail Ayiglo and Afua M. Blay. 2010. The Dilemma of African American English Identity: A Case of African Language Influence? In Lauer, Helen, Nana Aba Amfo and Jemima Anderson (eds.), Identity Meets Nationality: Voices from the Humanities (pp. 111-135). Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.
Proceedings (peer-reviewed)
Duah, Reginald Akuoko and Malte Zimmermann. 2022. Situation anaphoricity in Hausa and Akan: A unifed account. Proceedings of TripleA 8: Fieldwork Perspectives on the Semantics of Understudied Languages of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania, 104-126.
Duah, Reginald Akuoko, Mira Grubic and Agata Renans. 2021. The combination of indefinite and definite ‘determiners’ — a cross-linguistic study. Sinn Und Bedeutung (SuB) 25 , 238-55.
Carla Bombi, Mira Grubic, Agata Renans and Reginald Akuoko Duah. 2019. The semantics of the clausal determiner no in Akan (Kwa), In M. T. Espinal, E. Castroviejo, M. Leonetti, L. McNally & C. Real-Puigdollers (eds.), Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 23, vol. 1, 181-199.
Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon, Reginald Akuoko Duah and Clement Kwamina Insaidoo Appah. 2019. Serial verb nominalization in Akan: The question of intervening elements. In Emily Clem, Peter Jenks & Hannah Sande (eds.), Theory and description in African Linguistics: Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 395–422. Berlin: Language Science Press.
(submitted)
Duah, Reginald Akuoko, Mira Grubic and Agata Renans. The combination of indefinite and definite determiners in Akan. Proceedings of Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA7).
Book Review
Duah, Reginald Akuoko. 2020. Editorial book critique: A Grammar of Kusaal. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 9(2), 89-98.
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS (SELECTED)
Duah, Reginald Akuoko, Mira Grubic and Agata Renans. The combination of indefinite and definite determiners in Akan. Talk given at The Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (Triple A7) Workshop, University of Tübingen (July 21, 2020).
Duah, Reginald Akuoko, Mira Grubic and Agata Renans. The combination of indefinite and definite ‘determiners’—a cross-linguistic study. Talk given at Sinn und Bedeutung 25 (Special session: Semantics of Understudied Languages and Semantic Fieldwork), Queen Mary University of London and University College London (September 2, 2020).
Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon, Reginald Akuoko Duah and Clement Kwamina Insaidoo Appah. 2019. Ahene mu Hene: Deɛ ɛbunkam deɛ aka no nyinaa wɔ Akan, Yorùbá, ne mdw nTr mu [King of Kings: Superlative genitive constructions in Akan, Yorùbá and mdw nTr]. Talk given in Akan at the School of Languages Conference (SOLCON III), University of Ghana, Legon (July 2019).
Ọbádélé Bakari Kambon, Reginald Akuoko Duah and Clement Kwamina Insaidoo Appah. 2019. Kɛseɛ ho Nsɛmfua-nhyehyɛɛ ne Nkyerɛaseɛ wɔ Akan Kasa mu [Morphosemantics of augmentatives in Akan]. Talk given in Akan at the School of Languages Conference (SOLCON III), University of Ghana, Legon (July 2019).
Duah, Reginald Akuoko. 2019. Coordination, tense, focus, and the road in between: the case of the particle na in Akan. Synsem Colloquium, University of Potsdam, Germany (April 2019).
Bombi, Carla, Mira Grubic, Agata Renans and Reginald Akuoko Duah. 2018. The semantics of the clausal determiner no ́ in Akan (Kwa). Sinn und Bedeutung 23. Barcelona, Spain (September 2018).
Duah, Reginald Akuoko. 2018. Conceptualization of PAIN in Akan. Department of Linguistics Seminar, University of Ghana, Legon (April 2018).
Duah, Reginald Akuoko and Stefan Savic. 2017. Back to the Past: Semantics of Past Time Marking in Akan. A paper presented at the 30th WALC and 10th LAG Conference, University of Education, Winneba (July 2017).
Amfo, Nana Aba A. and Reginald Akuoko Duah. 2017. Too much Focus on Focus: The Grammatical Status of Focus Particles in Akan, Ga and Dangme. A paper presented at the 30th WALC and 10th LAG Conference, University of Education, Winneba (July 2017).
Schaefer, Ronald, Reginald Akuoko Duah and Francis O. Egbokhare. 2016. Toward a typology of Niger-Congo complementation. A paper presented at Proto-Niger-Congo 2nd International Congress, Paris (September 2016).
Kambon, Obadele, Celement I. K. Appah and Reginald Akuoko Duah. 2016. Serial Verb Nominalization in Akan: The Question of Intervening Elements. A paper presented at the 47th Annual Conference of African Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (March 2016).
Duah, Reginald Akuoko. 2016. Exhaustive Interpretation of Focus in Akan. A paper presented at the 47th Annual Conference of African Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley (March 2016).
Duah, Reginald Akuoko. 2016. Kwa, Causatively Speaking. Special Seminar, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Rhodes University, South Africa (November 2016).
Genzel, Susanne and Reginald Akuoko Duah. 2015. H-Tone Insertion on Verbs in na-Focus Sentences and Beyond. A paper presented at the Morphosyntactic Triggers of Tone Workshop, Universität Leipzig, Germany (September 2015).
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