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Graduate Program in Lexicography, Language Description and Analysis

LELADA Le(xicography) La(nguage) D(escription) A(analysis)

LELADA will offer a 4 years doctoral program in Linguistics with a focus on general linguistics (Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics), and digital language description and documentation of Ghanaian languages

LELADA's vision is to support linguistic education in Ghana with the goal to teach future language experts skills in creating and interpreting spoken and written language. This will make LELADA graduates highly employable not only in the educational system, but also in general administration and industry.

Next to its educational goal, LELADA is dedicated to the creation of digital language resources for the languages of Ghana.

Present LELADA Projects

Project owner	Project description
Kofi Busia Abrefa	The role of Tone in the morpho-syntax of Akan.
Kwasi Adomako	Tonal Phonology of loanwords adaptation of Akan and ...
Bright Amoah	Structures of Akan VPs
Franklin Asamoah	Categories of Akan verbs
Helen Atipoka	Acoustic correlates of vowel harmony in Farefari
Vincent Erskine Aziaku	A morphological and socio-linguistic study of Ewe animal names The linguistic nature of animal names among the Ewe of Ghana has so far not been investigated. It is worrisome that Ewe people use more and more English to name animals, and it needs to be feared that with rising education among the Ewe, the Ewe names for animals will be replaced with the English names. In documenting Ewe animal names, I will focus on their origin, their morphological structure and on the socio-linguistic factors that have influenced the naming process. This study intends to create a digital lexicon of Ewe animal names, using methods established in digital lexicography and language documentation.
Ababila James Azure	A socio-linguistic analysis of Gurenɛ proverbs - Choice and Usage. This study focuses on the use of proverbs in the interaction between parents and children.
Abdul-Rahman Fusheini	Syllable Structure Processes in Dagbani
Kodwo Stephen Ndako	Serial Verb Constructions in Nzema.
Ruby Otoo	Complementation in Ga Ga is one of the languages spoken by the Accra people of the southern part of Ghana. It is spoken by the Ga Mashi, Osu, La, Teshi, Nungua, Tema and the Kpone. Ga belongs to the New Kwa group of the Niger-Congo language family. A number of literary works, including the English- Ga Dictionary by Kropp Dakubu (2009), has been published on Ga. Next to the phonology of Ga (Dakubu 2002) (Wentum 1997), and the morphophonemics (Otoo 2005) also the sentence structure has been studied (Dakubu 2003), yet a study of different complementizers, analysing their meaning and their use, has not yet been undertaken. As our primary source we will use recordings from interactive radio programs, especially TV Africa and Obonu F.M. which we will transcribe and analyse using TypeCraft and ELAN. For more information about Ga see also Typological_Features_Template_for_Ga. A list of references can be found on my user page at Ruby Otoo
Adam Peter Pazzack	Compound formation in Dagbani. The main focus of the study is word compounding in Dagbani, which is one of the least studied area in Dagbani. In order to examine the morphological, phonological, semantic and syntactic processes in Dagbani word compounding, the following questions must be addressed. Which parameters are used in identifying compounds in Dagbani? How different is the word compounding process in Dagbani from the one in other languages?
Cecilia Tomekyin	Vowel Harmony in Nzema.
Sapaty Afeafa Georgina	Comparative study of the phonological structures of two dialects of Ewe.

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 |''' A morphological and socio-linguistic study of Ewe animal names'''
-The linguistic nature of animal names among the Ewe of Ghana has so far not been investigated. It is worrisome that Ewe people use more and more English to name animals, and it needs to be feared that with rising education among the Ewe, Ewe names for animals will be replaced with English names. In documenting Ewe animal names, I will focus on their origin, their morphological structure and on the socio-linguistic factors that have influenced  the naming process. This study intends to create a digital lexicon of Ewe animal names using methods established in digital lexicography and language documentation.
+The linguistic nature of animal names among the Ewe of Ghana has so far not been investigated. It is worrisome that Ewe people use more and more English to name animals, and it needs to be feared that with rising education among the Ewe, the Ewe names for animals will be replaced with the English names. In documenting Ewe animal names, I will focus on their origin, their morphological structure and on the socio-linguistic factors that have influenced the naming process. This study intends to create a digital lexicon of Ewe animal names, using methods established in digital lexicography and language documentation.
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 |'''Complementation in Ga'''
-Ga is a language of the Accra people of the southern part of Ghana. It is spoken by the Ga Mashi, Osu, La, Teshi, Nungua, Tema and Kpone.  Ga belongs to New Kwa group of the Niger-Congo language family.A number of literary works including the English- Ga Dictionary by Kropp Dakubu (2009). Next to the phonology of Ga (Dakubu 2002) (Wentum 1997), and the morphophonemics (Otoo 2005) also the sentence structure has been studied (Dakubu 2003), yet a study of different complementizers their meaning and their use has not yet been undertaken. As our primary source will use recordings from interactive programs on radio, especially TV Africa and Obonu F.M. which we will transcribe and analyse using TypeCraft and ELAN.
+Ga is one of the languages spoken by the Accra people of the southern part of Ghana. It is spoken by the Ga Mashi, Osu, La, Teshi, Nungua, Tema and the Kpone. Ga belongs to the New Kwa group of the Niger-Congo language family. A number of literary works, including the English- Ga Dictionary by Kropp Dakubu (2009), has been published on Ga. Next to the phonology of Ga (Dakubu 2002) (Wentum 1997), and the morphophonemics (Otoo 2005) also the sentence structure has been studied (Dakubu 2003), yet a study of different complementizers, analysing their meaning and their use, has not yet been undertaken. As our primary source we will use recordings from interactive radio programs, especially TV Africa and Obonu F.M. which we will transcribe and analyse using TypeCraft and ELAN.
 For more information about Ga see also [[Typological_Features_Template_for_Ga]].