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Evershed Kwasi Amuzu

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
Language ContactSociolinguisticsBilingualismApplied LinguisticsContact Linguistics
Publications

48

Citations

472

H-index

13

i10-index

16

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
9.8
Most cited paper
46
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 09:00
Publications

48 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Ewe-English codeswitching: A case of composite rather than classic codeswitching
EK Amuzu
2005 Humanities 46
Socio-pragmatics of conversational codeswitching in Ghana
EK Amuzu
2012 Ghana journal of linguistics 1 (2), 1-22, 2012 Humanities 42
Codeswitching in west africa
EK Amuzu, JV Singler
2014 International Journal of Bilingualism 18 (4), 329-345, 2014 Humanities 39
Aspects of grammatical structure in Ewe-English codeswitching
EK Amuzu
1998 Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Oslo, Norway, 1998 Humanities 35
Composite Codeswitching in West Africa: The Case of Ewe-English Codeswitching
EK Amuzu
2009 Lambert Academic Publishing, 329pp, 2009 Humanities 30
Producing composite codeswitching: The role of the modularity of language production
EK Amuzu
2014 International Journal of Bilingualism 18 (4), 384-407, 2014 Humanities 29
Revisiting the classic codeswitching–composite codeswitching distinction: A case study of nonverbal predication in Ewe–English codeswitching
EK Amuzu
2005 Australian journal of linguistics 25 (1), 127-151, 2005 Humanities 23
Codeswitching in Ghana: still the'third tongue'of the educated
EK Amuzu
2005 Legon Journal of the Humanities 16, 27-53, 2005 Humanities 22
Second language learners’ family background and their English writing competence: The case of a private tertiary institution in Ghana
EK Amuzu
2015 Studies in English Language Teaching, 2015 Humanities 19
“Awww, we r sorry wai” : pragmatic functions of L1 discourse markers in Ghanaians’ english-based WhatsApp conversations
EK Amuzu, AA Kuwornu, S Opoku-Fofie
2018 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 5 (2), 60-86, 2018 Humanities 17
Double plurality in codeswitching
EK Amuzu
2009 Legon Journal of the Humanities 20, 151-180, 2009 Humanities 14
Three-place predicates in Ewe
EK Amuzu
1993 MA Project Paper. Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon, 1993 Humanities 14
Errors on Ghanaian students’ written English: is speaking school pidgin English the cause
EK Amuzu
2016 Ghana Journal of Development Studies, 2016 Social Sciences 13
LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE IN PERVASIVE CODESWITCHING: INSIGHTS FROM GHANA.
EK Amuzu
2006 Language Centre Journal 2, 35, 2006 Humanities 13
Multilingualism and language practices of Nigerien migrants in Ghana
EK Amuzu, YE Nutakor, NAA Amfo
2019 Current issues in language planning 20 (4), 389-402, 2019 Humanities 11
Codeswitching as a means and a message in hiplife music in Ghana
M Quarcoo, EK Amuzu, AP Owusu
2014 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 2 (2), 1-32, 2014 Humanities 10
Code-switching in university students’ out-of-classroom academic discussions
M Quarcoo, EK Amuzu
2016 Issues in Intercultural Communication 4 (1), 1-14, 2016 Social Sciences 8
“That’s not my understanding” Interpretation in the Ghanaian multilingual court
EK Amuzu, A Campbell, S Ofori
2020 Language and Dialogue 10 (3), 389-421, 2020 Law 7
“Look me, hwε ha, ofainε kwεmɔ biε aha mi fioo!!”: Codeswitching at inter-ethnic traditional marriage ceremonies in southern Ghana
A Nuworsu, G Diabah, EK Amuzu
2019 Multilingua 38 (3), 283-311, 2019 Humanities 7
Combining the markedness model and the matrix language frame model in analysing bilingual speech
EK Amuzu
2015 Code-switching between structural and sociolinguistic perspectives. Berlin …, 2015 Humanities 7
A cross-linguistic study of double plurality in bilingual code-switching in West Africa
EK Amuzu
2013 Journal of West African Languages 40 (2), 73-100, 2013 Humanities 7
Bilingual serial verb constructions: A comparative study of Ewe-English and Ewe-French codeswitching
EK Amuzu
2013 Lingua 137, 19-37, 2013 Humanities 7
The mixed possessive adnominal construction in Ewe-English codeswitching: A test for the Matrix Language Frame model
EK Amuzu
2002 New directions in Ghanaian linguistics, 147-171, 2002 Humanities 7
The Syntax of Adverbials in Ewe-English Codeswitching
EK Amuzu
2016 Journal of Cognitive Science 17 (1), 133-165, 2016 Humanities 6
A comparative study of bilingual verb phrases in Ewe-English and Gengbe-French codeswitching
EK Amuzu
2014 Journal of Language Contact 7 (2), 250-287, 2014 Humanities 6