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Mercy Bobuafor

SENIOR LECTURER

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

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
Language documentation and language descriptionsyntaxsemanticsanthropological linguistics and lexicography
Publications

14

Citations

149

H-index

5

i10-index

3

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
10.6
Most cited paper
87
First publication year
2001
Latest publication year
2024
Last updated
16 Sep 2026, 02:57
Publications

14 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
A grammar of Tafi
M Bobuafor
2013 LOT, 2013 Humanities 87
Cultural values and the pragmatic significance of proverbial sayings in Tafi and Ewe
M Bobuafor
2021 Journal of Pragmatics 178, 192-207, 2021 Humanities 22
Noun classes in Tafi: A preliminary analysis
ML Bobuafor
2009 The linguistics of endangered languages: Contributions to morphology and …, 2009 Humanities 17
Separation events in Tafi language and culture
M Bobuafor
2018 Studies in African Linguistics, 1-23, 2018 Humanities 8
Some Verbal Alternations in Ewe
M Bobuafor, EK Osam, P Agbedor
2006 Afrika und Übersee 89, 109-126, 2006 Humanities 5
Verbal alternations in Ewe
M Bobuafor
2001 MPhil thesis. University of Ghana, Legon, 2001 Humanities 4
Comparative constructions in Tafi
M Bobuafor
2021 Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 42 (2), 163-190, 2021 Humanities 2
When numerals agree and don’t agree: The case of Tafi
M Bobuafor
2020 Essays on African languages and linguistics in honour of Maarten Mous, 353-369, 2020 Humanities 2
“Paddling a Canoe and Preparing Rice Balls”: The Semantics of Tafi Cuisine
M Bobuafor
2018 Ghana Journal of Linguistics 7 (2), 134-153, 2018 Humanities 2
Adposition classes in Tafi and Sɛlɛɛ
M Bobuafor, Y Agbetsoamedo
2024 Predication in African Languages, 99-127, 2024 Humanities 0
University of Ghana
M Bobuafor
2018 Studies in African Linguistics 47 (1&2), 1&2, 2018 Humanities 0
Where do Tafi adjectives come from?
M Bobuafor
2016 Afrika und Übersee 92, 171-189, 2016 Humanities 0
Noun classes in Tafi: A preliminary analysis
M Lamptey Bobuafor
2009 LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2009 Humanities 0
Some Verbal Alternations in Ewe
EK Osam, M Bobuafor, P Agbedor
2007 Afrika und Übersee (89): 109-126, 2007 Humanities 0