Browsing Department of Ghanaian Languages & Linguistics by Author "Korsah, Sampson"

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Beyond resumptives and expletives in Akan

Korsah, Sampson (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

In Akan, resumption is obligatory for extraction from a subject position. Accordingly, there is usually agreement between the resumptive pronoun (RP) and its referent constituent. However, data from the Asante-Twi dialect ...
From polarity to reduplication in Gã

Korsah, Sampson (University of Cape Coast, 2009)

There seems to be an intricate connection between reduplication of indefinite DPs and clausal negation in Gã; the reduplication is only permitted in the presence of negation. Thus, such reduplicated DPs can be construed ...
Ga imperatives and richness of the base

Korsah, Sampson (University of Cape Coast, 2009)

This paper proposes a solution to a Richness of the Base problem that is inherent in the morpho-tonology of Gã verbs to which the imperative morpheme i.e. a floating high tone (plus sometimes, a segmental -m´) suffix is ...
On inherent complement verbs in Kwa

Korsah, Sampson (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

Several analyses have been proposed for the “inherent complement erbs” (ICVs) of the Kwa languages. In this paper, I propose that given the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of both the erb and its complement, it ...

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