Oxford University Press, 2003. — 392 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) This is the first book on the syntax of a Niger-Conger language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the languages (Gungbe) discussed, analyzes different aspects of the syntax of the "Kwa" language group. Aboh also suggests how...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 350 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series). — ISBN: 9027205671. This book explores the thesis that in the Kwa languages of West Africa, aspect and modality are more central to the grammar of the verb than tense. Where tense marking has emerged it is invariably in the expression of the future, and therefore concerned with the...
2004. - 17 p. The Ega language is spoken in western Côte d’Ivoire, as an enclave language among Kru speakers. It has been investigated by Rémy Bole-Richard (1983, ms.) and more recently by a project led by Dafydd Gibbon (). Ega has been considered a threatened language, although it now seems likely that there are more speakers than previously thought. Bole-Richard & Lafage...
Radboud University Nijmegen, 2011. — 441 p. Picture a late afternoon in the mountainside village of Akpafu-Mempeasem,eastern Ghana. A handful of people hang around in the shade of a mango tree when a farmer stops by to offer them some fruit for sale. A lively discussion ensues about the quality of the goods. One person notes that the cassava is nicely smooth sinisinisinisini...
Utrecht: LOT, 2008. — 466 p. This thesis presents a grammar of Logba, one of the fourteen Ghana Togo Mountain languages in the hills of the Ghana-Togo frontier. The work is the outcome of a research based on two periods of a total of fifteen months of fieldwork in the Logba speaking communities. The major concern of this study is to describe the Logba language.
Peace Corps, — iii, 98 p. This Anufo manual is competency based and contains useful expressions related to all training components such as technique, health, safety and security. This will build up your ability to communicate in local language and will bring you closer to the community with which you will work. This capacity will also enable you to know your community better....
Peace Corps. — iii, 107 p. This manual is competency based and contains useful expressions related to all training components such as technique, health, safetyand security. This will build up your ability to communicate in local language and will bring you closer to the community with which you will work. This capacity will also enable you to know your community better. You...
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