Papers
In Progress: “The distribution and meaning of the cross-categorial determiner 'nó' in Akan”
To be submitted to the Journal of African Linguistics
2025 “On the strong-weak status of the Akan definiteness marker”
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
2025 “Definitely a question: definite markers in Akan ex-situ “
Cross-disciplinary approaches to information structure in Niger-Congo languages.
Edited by Akinlabi, Korsah, Rose, and Sulemana Berlin: Language Science Press
To appear “Habitual, Abilities, and Actuality Entailments in Akan”
Invited Book Chapter. Handbook of Temporality in Language. Edited by Cable, Ogihara, and Zagona
2023 “On unexpected exceptions to prosodic vacuity and verbal resumption in Akan”
Snippets Co-authored with Korsah, S., Owusu, A. & Ahenkorah, C.
2022 “Definite indefinite stacking in Akan”
Proceedings of TripleA 8: Fieldwork Perspectives on the Semantics of Understudied Languages of Africa,
Asia, Australia, and Oceania. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
2022 “Tense and aspect in Akan serial verb constructions”
Descriptive and theoretical approaches to African linguistics: Selected papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.635861
2019 “A Closer Look at "bí": An epistemic indefinite analysis”
African linguistics across the disciplines: Selected papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Edited by Lotven, Samson, Silvina Bongiovanni, Phillip Weirich, and Robert Btne.
2014 "Codeswitching as a means and a message in hiplife music in Ghana."
Journal of Contemporary African Linguistics 2 (2) 1-32
Invited Talks
2024 "Are clausal determiners propositional determiners?"
Harvard Linguistics Colloquium. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2023 "Are there complex predicates in Akan? Evidence from adverbial modification"
ALS-LSA Workshop: Complex/clustered predicates and argument structure in
African languages. Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute University Of Massachusetts- Amherst. Co-presenter: Comfort Ahenkorah (Yale University)
2021 "Definite indefinite stacking in Akan."
Triple A Semantics Conference. National University of Singapore
2020 "Definite Propositions and Clausal Determiners"
Boston University, Linguistics Colloquium. Boston Massachusetts
2017 "Actuality Entailment in Akan."
New York University, Semantics Reading Group. Linguistics Department
Conference Presentations
2024 "Definite wh-questions in Akan"
Annual Conference of African Linguistics (ACAL) 55. McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2019 "Bare Nouns in Akan Revisited."
Semantics of African, Asian, and Austronesian Languages (Triple A6)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
"Determiners outside the nominal domain."
Annual Conference of African Linguistics (ACAL 50). The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2018 "Actuality Entailment in Akan and Lubukusu"
Annual Conference of African Linguistics (ACAL 49 ). Michigan State University (with Ken Safir)
"Tense and Aspect in Akan Coordinate Constructions"
Annual Conference of African Linguistics (ACAL 49). Michigan State University
2017 "Actuality Entailment in Akan"
Semantics of African, Asian, and Austronesian Languages (TripleA 4). Gothenburg, Sweden
"Another look at bi: an Epistemic Indefinite Analysis"
Annual Conference of African Linguistics (ACAL 48). Indiana University
"The Typology of NC Sequences in Central Tano."
Annual Conference of African Linguistics (ACAL 48). Indiana University
2016 "Actuality Entailment in Akan" (Poster)
Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning (MACSIM 6). Hunter College, CUNY.
2015 "Modal Concord in Akan"
8th World Congress of African Linguistics. Kyoto University, Japan.
2013 "A comparative study of Reflexivisation in Akan and Ewe."
Linguistics Association Conference (LAG). University of Cape Coast.