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Kweku Osam

Professor

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

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
SyntaxSemanticsTypologyAfrican LanguagesAkan
Publications

66

Citations

962

H-index

16

i10-index

23

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
14.6
Most cited paper
155
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2025
Last updated
15 Sep 2026, 23:46
Publications

66 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Aspects of Akan grammar: A functional perspective
EKA Osam
1994 University of Oregon, 1994 Humanities 155
An introduction to the verbal and multi-verbal system of Akan
EK Osam
2003 Proceedings of the workshop on multi-verb constructions Trondheim summer …, 2003 Humanities 108
From serial verbs to prepositions and the road between
EK Osam
1994 STUF-Language Typology and Universals 47 (1), 16-36, 1994 Humanities 72
Akan as an aspectual language
EK Osam
2008 Aspect and modality in Kwa languages 100, 69, 2008 Humanities 59
The loss of the noun class system in Akan
EK Osam
1993 Acta linguistica hafniensia 26 (1), 81-106, 1993 Humanities 58
Serial verbs and grammatical relations in Akan
EK Osam
1997 Typological Studies in Language 35, 253-280, 1997 Humanities 44
Animacy distinctions in Akan grammar
EK Osam
1996 Humanities 42
The Trondheim lectures. An introduction to the structure of Akan: its verbal and multiverbal systems
EK Osam
2004 Legon: Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana, 131, 2004 Humanities 41
Adjectives in Akan
E KWEKU OSAM
1999 Afrika und Übersee 82 (2), 189-211, 1999 Humanities 33
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
The object relation in Akan
EK Osam
1996 Afrika und Übersee 79 (1), 57-83, 1996 Humanities 30
An introduction to the structure of Akan: its verbal and multiverbal systems
EK Osam
2004 Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana, 2004 Humanities 24
Verbal alternations in Akan.
EK Osam
2008 Journal of African Languages & Linguistics 29 (1), 49, 2008 Humanities 20
Reflexive marking and related functions in Akan
KE Osam
2002 アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究 64, 141-151, 2002 Humanities 19
Complementation in Akan
EK Osam
1998 Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 19 (1), 21-44, 1998 Humanities 17
Verb serialization and grammatical relations in Akan
EK Osam
1997 T. Givón, 1997 Humanities 16
The ingressive in Akan: A re-consideration
EK Osam
2002 Felix Ameka &, 2002 Humanities 15
The Trondheim lectures
EK Osam
2004 An introduction to Akan: Its verbal and, 2004 Humanities 14
Literal and metaphorical usages of ‘eat’and ‘drink’in Akan
DP Agyepong, NAA Amfo, EK Osam
2017 Nordic Journal of African Studies 26 (1), 17-17, 2017 Humanities 13
Derived adjectives in Akan and Ewe: A comparative analysis
KE Osam
2003 Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 1, 171-179, 2003 Humanities 13
The status of the indirect object in Akan
OE Kweku
2000 アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究= Journal of Asian and African studies/東京外国語大 …, 2000 Humanities 13
The Ga preverb kɛ revisited
MEK Dakubu, MEK Dakubu, EK Osam
2004 Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 2, 113-134, 2004 Humanities 12
A case for revisiting definitions of serial verb constructions: Evidence from Akan serial verb nominalization
O Kambon, EK Osam, NAA Amfo
2015 Studies in African Linguistics 44 (2), 76-99, 2015 Humanities 10
The semantics and argument realization potentials of Akan verbs of separation
DP Agyepong, EK Osam
2020 Journal of West African Languages 47 (1), 30-49, 2020 Humanities 8
Reflexivation in Buli: A Preliminary Observation
P Agbedor, MEK Dakubu, EK Osam
2002 ME Kropp Dakubu and EK Osam. Selected proceedings of the Annual Colloquium …, 2002 Humanities 8