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HASIYATU ABUBAKARI

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh University of Ghana, Legon and Research Associate, Rhodes University, South Africa Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteINSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES
DepartmentINSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES SECRETARIAT
LanguageLinguistics and Literature
Publications

55

Citations

366

H-index

12

i10-index

13

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
6.7
Most cited paper
53
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 08:20
Publications

55 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Aspects of Kusaal grammar: The syntax-information structure interface
H Abubakari
2018 PhD diss., University of Vienna, 2018 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 53
Personal names in Kusaal: A sociolinguistic analysis
H Abubakari
2020 Language & Communication 75, 21-35, 2020 Humanities 42
Linking COVID-19-related awareness and anxiety as determinants of coping strategies’ utilization among senior high school teachers in Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana
JE Hagan Jr, F Quansah, F Ankomah, EK Agormedah, M Srem-Sai, ...
2022 Social Sciences 11 (3), 137, 2022 Social Sciences 34
Object-sharing as symmetric sharing: Predicate clefting and serial verb constructions in Kusaal
H Abubakari
2011 MA Thesis, University of Tromsø, 2011 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 26
Framing of COVID-19 safety protocols in Kusaal musical health communication: Language and literary analysis
H Abubakari, IS Assem, AS Amankwah
2021 Language & Communication 81, 64-80, 2021 Humanities 19
Ideophones in Kusaal
H Abubakari
2017 Journal of West African Languages 44 (1), 42-57, 2017 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 18
Towards the harmonization of a writing system for the Mabia languages of West Africa
A Bodomo, H Abubakari
2017 Deconstructing the Tower of Babel: Between the Harmonization and …, 2017 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 18
Mabia languages and cultures expressed through personal names
H Abubakari, SA Issah, SO Acheampong, MD Luri, JN Napari
2023 International Journal of Language and Culture 10 (1), 87-114, 2023 Humanities 16
Handbook of the Mabia languages of West Africa
A Bodomo, H Abubakari, SA Issah
2020 Galda Verlag, 2020 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 16
Contrastive focus particles in Kusaal
H Abubakari
2019 Theory and description in African Linguistics, 325, 2019 Humanities 14
A grammar of Kusaal: An introduction to the structure of a Mabia language
H Abubakari
2022 Unpublished monograph, Institute of African studies, University of Ghana, 2022 Humanities 12
Noun class system of Kusaal
H Abubakari
2021 Studies in African Linguistics 50 (1), 116-139, 2021 Humanities 12
On nominalizing the serial verb in Mabia languages
A Bodomo, H Abubakari, D Che
2018 Ghana Journal of Linguistics 7 (2), 1-32, 2018 Humanities 11
Folktales for environmental conservation: From oral traditions to ecological wisdom
H Abubakari
2025 African Studies 84 (1-2), 68-87, 2025 Natural Sciences 8
Predicate cleft constructions in Kusaal
H Abubakari
2019 The grammar of verbs and their arguments: a cross-linguistic perspective …, 2019 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 8
Communication through popular culture: Analyzing a googi performance on early marriage among the Kusaas of Ghana
H Abubakari, AS Amankwah, AO Mensah
2024 Language & Communication 99, 90-106, 2024 Social Sciences 6
The syntax and semantics of relative clauses in Kusaal
H Abubakari
2019 Ghana Journal of Linguistics 8 (2), 27-62, 2019 Humanities 6
Focus marking in serial verb constructions in Kusaal
H Abubakari
2020 Handbook of the Mabia Languages of West Africa (35-74). Galda Verlag, Glienicke, 2020 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 5
The syntax of strong and weak pronouns in Dagbani and kusaal
H Abubakari, SA Issah
2020 Studia Linguistica: A Journal of General Linguistics 74 (3), 1-29, 2020 Humanities 5
Kusaal Folktales: Communicative tools for preserving indigenous cultural values in Ghanaian marriages
H Abubakari, AS Amankwah, AO Mensah
2024 Folklore 135 (2), 276-299, 2024 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 4
Exploring euphemisms as taboo avoidance strategies in the Mabia languages
SA Issah, H Abubakari, SA Atintono, S Atibiri
2023 Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Southern Africa 54 (2), 42-64, 2023 Humanities 4
The syntax of weak and strong pronouns in Dagbani and Kusaal
H Abubakari, SA Issah
2020 Studia Linguistica 74 (3), 584-612, 2020 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 4
Aspects of the grammar of Kusaal: Syntax-information structure interface
H Abubakari
2018 PhD thesis, University of Vienna, 2018 Multidisciplinary / Unclassified 4
Serial verb reduplication in the Mabia languages of West Africa
A Bodomo, H Abubakari
2022 Legon Journal of the Humanities 33 (2), 29-58, 2022 Humanities 3
Relativisation in Kusaal
H Abubakari
2018 SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 19, 3-28, 2018 Humanities 3