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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
The composite matrix language in mixed possessive constructions in Ewe-English codeswitching
EK Amuzu
2005 Monash University Linguistics Papers 4 (2), 11-28, 2005 Humanities 6
Codeswitching as a Communication of Multiple Identities: Messages from the Ghanaian Context. Presented 13th April
EK Amuzu
2010 2010 at the 8th Faculty of Arts Colloquium, University of Ghana, 2010 Social Sciences 5
Mechanisms of language maintenance in Ewe-English codeswitching
EK Amuzu
2009 Journal of West African Languages (1-2), pp. 221-243, 2009 Humanities 5
Crosslinguistic effects in adjectivization strategies in Suriname, Ghana and Togo
M Van den Berg, EK Amuzu, KE Essizewa, E Yevudey, K Tagba
2017 Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In …, 2017 Humanities 4
Ewe contact database
E Amuzu
2011 Unpublished corpus, University of Ghana, Legon, 2011 Humanities 4
Variations of [ɾ] in Dagbani female names
AR Inusah, EK Amuzu, GA Pare
2019 Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 37 (3), 191-209, 2019 Humanities 3
Culturally bound abusive expressions in Ghanaian social media
RGA Thompson, EK Amuzu
2025 Lingua 328, 104056, 2025 Social Sciences 2
Language contact in Santrokofi, a Ghana-Togo mountain language community: Impact on Selee
Y Agbetsoamedo, EK Amuzu, D Dankwa-Apawu
2024 Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Southern Africa 55 (1-2), 1-20, 2024 Humanities 1
Dialectal variation in lexical borrowings in Dangme
RT Akrobettoe, RO Caesar, EK Amuzu
2022 Legon Journal of the Humanities 33 (2), 1-28, 2022 Humanities 1
Sociolinguistic Variation of [ɾ] in Dagbani
AR Inusah, EK Amuzu, GA Pare
2017 Sociolinguistic Variation of [ɾ] in Dagbani 1 (3), 00017, 2017 Humanities 1
Mechanisms of L1 maintenance in Ewe-English codeswitching
EK Amuzu
2009 Journal of West AfricanLanguages XXXVI 1 (2), 222, 2009 Humanities 1
Discourse-Pragmatic Functions of Oh, Ah, and Aha in Ghanaian English
EK Amuzu, R Thompson
2026 Corpus-based Studies across Humanities, 2026 Humanities 0
Greetings as a linguistic routine among the people of Larteh in Ghana
C Sarpong, RGA Thompson, EK Amuzu
2026 South African Journal of African Languages, 1-12, 2026 Humanities 0
Ethnopragmatic and sociolinguistic interpretation of death-announcing euphemisms in Ewe
P Kpodo, E Amuzu, CSA Mallet, GK Agbemehia
2025 Studies in African Languages and Cultures 59, 89-124, 2025 Humanities 0
Insertional Codeswitching in Two Triglossic Speech Communities in Ghana: Efutu (Winneba) and Ewe (Koforidua) in Focus
EK Amuzu, NA Agyeman, EY Akpakli, FNF Taylor
2025 The Handbook of Multilingualism, Identity, and Language Endangerment in …, 2025 Humanities 0
8 African contributions to four journals of sociolinguistics
EK Amuzu, E ResCue, B Boakye, N Aba, A Amfo
2022 Southernizing Sociolinguistics: Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in …, 2022 Humanities 0
" look me, hwϵ ha, ofainϵ kwϵm biϵ AHA mi fioo!!": Codeswitching at inter-ethnic traditional marriage ceremonies in southern Ghana
G Diabah, A Nuworsu, EK Amuzu
2019 Multilingua, 2019 Humanities 0
Variations of [ɾ] in Dagbani female names
EK Amuzu, AR Inusah, GA Pare
2019 SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES, 2019 Humanities 0
St. David’s dialect: a decreolised English variety?
M Torossian-Imami, EK Amuzu
2017 Humanities 0
A Comparative Study of Emotion Lexicon in French and Ewe
S Chachu, E Amuzu
2016 Humanities 0
Poor quality of the written english of students in tertiary institutions in Ghana: Is school pidgin the (sole) culprit?
E Asinyor, E Amuzu
2015 University of Ghana, 2015 Humanities 0
Ewe-English codeswitching: ¹ a test for the
EK Amuzu
2002 New Directions in Ghanaian Linguistics: Essays in Honor of the 3Ds: ME Kropp …, 2002 Humanities 0
English Meets Indigenous African Language: A Case Study of English-Kasem Bilinguals in Ghana
EK AYIRA, JA ANDERSON, EK AMUZU
1900 Englishes in Africa, 27, 0 Humanities 0