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Reginald Akuoko Duah

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh University of Ghana, Legon Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
information structuredefinitenesscausativescognitive semanticscomparative syntax
Publications

38

Citations

211

H-index

8

i10-index

6

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
5.6
Most cited paper
31
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
16 Sep 2026, 02:07
Publications

38 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
The semantics of the (so-called) clausal determiner n o in Akan (Kwa)
C Bombi, M Grubic, A Renans, RA Duah
2019 Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23 (1), 181-200, 2019 Humanities 31
The so-called postpositions in Akan: A reconsideration
EK Osam, RA Duah, AM Blay
2011 Journal of West African Languages 38 (2), 107-118, 2011 Humanities 31
Focus, exhaustivity and existence in Akan, Ga and Ngamo
M Grubic, A Renans, RA Duah
2019 Linguistics 57 (1), 221-268, 2019 Humanities 30
Akan noun–verb nominal compounds: The exocentric synthetic view
CKI Appah, RA Duah, Ọ Kambon
2017 Language Sciences 64, 1-15, 2017 Humanities 17
Force dynamics and causation in Akan
RA Duah
2013 University of Ghana, 2013 Humanities 16
Exhaustive focus marking in Akan
RA Duah, F Bildhauer, M Grubic
2015 Mood, exhaustivity and focus marking in non-European languages, 1-28, 2015 Humanities 15
Diversifying language acquisition research can be (partly) achieved in urban societies and with simplified methodologies: Insights from multilingual Ghana
PO Omane, T Benders, RA Duah, N Boll-Avetisyan
2023 Journal of Child Language 50 (3), 532-536, 2023 Humanities 8
Serial verb nominalization in Akan: The question of intervening elements
ỌB Kambon, RA Duah, CKI Appah
2019 Theory and description in African Linguistics: Selected papers from the 47th …, 2019 Humanities 8
Codeswitching in written communication: factors and motivations
R Duah, S Marjie
2013 The one in a many. Sub-Saharan Publishers: Accra, 97-121, 2013 Social Sciences 8
Non-African Linguists Be Like,“This Is a New Way to Quote!”
OB Kambon, RA Duah
2017 Ghana Journal of Linguistics 6 (2), 85-115, 2017 Humanities 6
Exploring Variation in Infants' Preference for Infant‐directed Speech: Evidence From a Multi‐Site Study in Africa
ASM Tsui, A Carstensen, G Kachergis, A Cao, A Abubakar, M Asnake, ...
2026 Developmental Science 29 (5), e70242, 2026 Humanities 5
Tense or aspect? Semantics of the verbal suffix (-V) in Akan.
RA Duah, S Savić
2020 SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 17 (2), 77, 2020 Humanities 5
The combination of inde? nite and de? nite ‘determiners’—a cross-linguistic study
R Duah, M Grubic, A Renans
2021 Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, 238-255, 2021 Humanities 4
Coordination, tense and focus, and the road in between: The case of the particle na in Akan
RA Duah
2019 Talk at Synsem Colloquium, Potsdam Universität (April 21, 2019), 2019 Humanities 4
Focus exhaustivity in Akan
RA Duah
2014 Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure, 2014 Humanities 4
Identity meets nationality: voices from the humanities
H Lauer, NAA Amfo, JA Anderson
2011 African Books Collective, 2011 Humanities 4
On the structure of analytic causatives in Akan
RA Duah, O Kambon
2020 Journal of West African Languages 47 (2), 1-22, 2020 Humanities 3
Force dynamics and causation in Akan. University of Ghana, Legon
RA Duah
2013 Doctoral dissertation, 2013 Humanities 3
Aspects of Akan Verbal Semantics
EK Osam, OB Kambon, ES Afreh, DP Agyepong, RA Duah, ES Eshun
2023 Linguistics Association of Ghana, 2023 Humanities 2
The combination of indefinite and definite determiners in Akan
RA Duah, M Grubic, A Renans
2023 Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2023 Humanities 2
Event Types and (In) Directness of Causation in Akan
RA Duah, EK Osam, NAA Amfo
2021 Cognitive Semantics 7 (1), 54-84, 2021 Humanities 2
Recognition of Familiar Wordforms and Phonological Variation in Akan by Multilingual Infants Learning African Tone Languages in Ghana
PO Omane, RA Duah, T Nazzi
2026 Developmental Science 29 (5), e70253, 2026 Humanities 1
Sustaining Language Acquisition Research in Africa: A Commentary on Scaff et al.(2025)
PO Omane, AA Isaiah, RA Duah, T Nazzi
2025 Developmental Science 28 (5), e70063, 2025 Humanities 1
Cardinal numerals in Akan: A Construction Morphology account
C Appah, RA Duah, OB Kambon
2023 Ghana Journal of Linguistics 12 (1), 48-72, 2023 Engineering 1
Resumption as a novel DP/NP diagnostic
I Driemel, A Bimpeh, R Duah
2025 Snippets 47, 4-7, 2025 Humanities 0