Adomako's Profile

Research and Publications

Research Interests

  1. • Descriptive, documentary and theoretical (cognitive) linguistics especially in the domains of phonology, morphology, typology, semantics, and translation
  2. • Language and culture, linguistic behaviors such as language games, and language and the media

Publications

  1. Adomako, K. (2015a). Some phonological processes in an Akan linguistic game. Linguistik Online, 72(3), 3-22.
  2. Adomako, K. (2015b). Final-nasal deletion in Akan (Asante Twi) reduplication. The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics, 8, 1-20.
  3. Adomako, K. (2015c). Truncation of some Akan personal names. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 15 (1), 143-162.
  4. Adomako, K. & Bright Amoah. (2014). Some translation practices in the Asante Twi Bible. SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation, 7 (1), 9-27.
  5. Adomako, K. (2013) Underapplication in Akan loanword adaptation. International Journal of Linguistics, 5(5), 174-196.
  6. Adomako, K. (2012b). Verbal Nominalization as derivational process: The case of Akan. Ghana Journal of Linguistics, 1(2), 43-64.
  7. Adomako, K. (2012a). Vowel raising in Akan reduplication. Legon Journal of Humanities, 23, 155-184.
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Adomako, K.; A. Agoswin Musah, Atibiri A. Sandow & Reginald A. Duah
12th Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) Conference. Paa Grant University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana 31st July, - 2nd August, 2019

Paper presented:
• Kusaal and Akan as dialects of the same language? A comparative analysis of some peculiar lexical items

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kpodo, P.; Adomako, K.; & Amoh, S.
12th Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) Conference. Paa Grant University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana 31st July, - 2nd August, 2019

Paper presented:
Some morphophonological processes in the adaptation of Akan personal day-names in Ewe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomekyin, C., Adomako, K. & Nyame, J.
50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 22nd May, - 25th May, 2019

Paper presented:
The phonology of compounds in Nzema

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Adomako, K. (2015). Final-nasal deletion in Akan (Asante Twi) reduplication. The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics, 8, 1-20. DOI: do10.5750/bjll.v1i0.594. http://ubplj.org/index.php/bjll/article/view/594.

 

Adomako, K. (2015). Some phonological processes in an Akan linguistic game. Linguistik Online, 72, (3), 3-22. DOI: 10.13092/lo.72.1970. http://https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/viewFile/1970/3205. ISSN: ISSN 1615-3014

 

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