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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
Grammatical relations in Ikalanga
JT Mathangwane, EK Osam
2006 Studies in African Linguistics 35 (2), 189-208, 2006 Humanities 7
The history of Akan complementizers
EK Osam
1996 Journal of Asian and African Studies 51, 93-103, 1996 Humanities 7
Imaging a president: Rawlings in the Ghanaian chronicle
K Osam
2008 Legon Journal of the Humanities 19, 109-134, 2008 Humanities 6
Relativization in Kaakye
LN Abunya, EK Osam
2022 Legon Journal of the Humanities 33 (1), 1-38, 2022 Humanities 5
Optimal inflections as asymmetry between nominal and verbal reduplications in Akan
C Marfo, EK Osam
2018 Ghana Journal of Linguistics 7 (2), 33-51, 2018 Humanities 5
Descriptive features of serial verb constructions in Akan
EK Osam
2014 A Legon reader in Ghanaian linguistics, 11-23, 2014 Humanities 5
Some Verbal Alternations in Ewe
M Bobuafor, E KWEKU OSAM, P Agbedor
2010 Afrika und Übersee 89 (1-2), 109-126, 2010 Humanities 5
Adjective sequencing in Akan: A preliminary investigation
C Pokuaa, EK Osam, KK Saah
2007 Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin 4 (Part 1), 2007 Humanities 5
Some discourse features of Akan narratives
EK Osam
1986 Unpublished M. Phil Thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana …, 1986 Humanities 5
Valency changing processes in Akan
EK Osam
2016 Diversity in African languages, 117, 2016 Humanities 4
Adjectives and Qualification in the Languages of the Volta Basin: An Overview
KK Saah, E Osam Kweku
2010 Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin, Proceedings of the Annual …, 2010 Humanities 4
Adjective Sequencing in Akan: A Preliminary Investigation In ME Kropp Dakubu G Akanlig-Pare
C Pokua, KK Saah, EK Osam
2007 Studies in the languages of the Volta Basin 1, 134-142, 2007 Humanities 4
Akan Dictionary
A Anyidoho, EK Osam, KK Saah, K Agyekum, E Apenteng-Sackey, G Bota, ...
2006 Pilot project. University of Ghana, 2006 Humanities 4
Akan terminology: English-Akan Linguistics and Media Glossary
K Agyekum, EK Osam, S Apenteng
2011 Adwinsa Publications Ghana Ltd., 2011 Humanities 3
A note on the cross-dialectal diffusion of grammaticalization: The case of ma in akan
EK Osam
2008 Acta linguistica hafniensia 40 (1), 111-120, 2008 Humanities 3
Aspect and modality in Kwa languages
EK Osam
2007 In: Akan as an Aspectual language, edited by Felix Ameka and Mary Esther …, 2007 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
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
A discourse analysis of texts of the Reform
K Osam
2012 At War with Words 10, 149, 2012 Humanities 2
The middle construction in Akan
EK Osam
1995 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 …, 1995 Engineering 2
Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin
MEK Dakubu, EK Osam
2010 Linguistics Department, University of Ghana, 2010 Humanities 1
Studies in the Languages of the Volta Basin: Proceedings of the Annual Colloquium of the Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project, 4-6 December 2002
MEK Dakubu, EK Osam
2003 Linguistics Department, University of Ghana, 2003 Humanities 1
New directions in Ghanaian linguistics: Essays in honour of the 3Ds: ME Kropp Dakubu, Florence Abena Dolphyne, Alan Stewart Duthie
FK Ameka, EK Osam
2002 Black Mask Ltd., 2002 Humanities 1
Participant identification in Akan narratives
E Osam
1990 Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere: Schriftenreihe des Kölner Instituts für …, 1990 Humanities 1
Animacy distinction in Kaakye
LN Abunya, RK Asante, EK Osam
2025 Contemporary Journal of African Studies 12 (1), 183-222, 2025 Humanities 0