Education
Education
2014- Present Rutgers University, Ph.D. Linguistics
2012- 2014 University of Ghana, Mphil Linguistics
Thesis: Linguistics strategies in the expression of modality in Akan.
2007- 2011 University of Cape Coast, B.A English, and Linguistics
Thesis: The Semantics of the Akan indefinite determiner bi.
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Papers
Under Review On the strong-weak status of the Akan definiteness marker
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (Revised second version in response to Revise and Resubmit decision on first submitted version )
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2022 Definite indefinite stacking in Akan
Descriptive and theoretical approaches to African linguistics: Selected papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African
Linguistics (Contemporary African Linguistics 6).
Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6358613
Invited Talks
2024 Are clausal determiners propositional determiners?
Harvard Linguistics Colloquium
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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
Presented with Comfort Ahenkorah (Yale University)
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2021 Definite indefinite stacking in Akan.
Triple A Semantics Conference. National University of Singapore
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2020 Definite Propositions and Clausal Determiners
Colloquium talk. Boston University. Boston Massachusetts
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2017 Actuality Entailment in Akan.
New York University
Linguistics Department
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Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
2024 Definite wh-questions in Akan
Annual Conference of African Linguistics (ACAL) 55
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2019 Bare Nouns in Akan Revisted. Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA6)-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. (handout)
Determiners outside the nominal domain. Annual Conference of African Linguistics (ACAL50. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver​
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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.
Manuscripts
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2017 Tense and Aspect in Akan Multi-verbal Clauses. Qualifying Paper, Rutgers University
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2016 Actuality Entailment in Akan. Qualifying Paper. Rutgers University