ABSTRACT The study investigates spatial orientation in Ga, two frameworks were adopted for this work namely; Cognitive Semantics and grammaticalization. Cognitive semantics attaches more importance to conceptual structure and our embodied experience and also deals with extended meanings while grammaticalization accounts for meaning related to body parts, time and other grammatical notions. The main methodology adopted for this study is the Topological Relation Picture Series (TRPS), the (1993...
ABSTRACT The study investigates spatial orientation in Ga, two frameworks were adopted for this work namely; Cognitive Semantics and grammaticalization. Cognitive semantics attaches more importance to conceptual structure and our embodied experience and also deals with extended meanings while grammaticalization accounts for meaning related to body parts, time and other grammatical notions. The main methodology adopted for this study is the Topological Relation Picture Series (TRPS), the (1993...
ABSTRACT The study investigates spatial orientation in Ga, two frameworks were adopted for this work namely; Cognitive Semantics and grammaticalization. Cognitive semantics attaches more importance to conceptual structure and our embodied experience and also deals with extended meanings while grammaticalization accounts for meaning related to body parts, time and other grammatical notions. The main methodology adopted for this study is the Topological Relation Picture Series (TRPS), the (1993...
ABSTRACT This thesis presents aspects of the Phonology of Tùtrùgbù. The main focus of the study is the Syllable Structure, Tone, ATR Vowel harmony, and Loanword Phonology. The people of Nyagbo are called Bàtùgbù while the language is called Tutru ̀ ̀gbù. Tùtrugbu ̀ ̀ is one of the fourteen (14) languages classified as Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages of the Kwa family. Nyagbo communities are located in the new Afadzato West District of the Volta Region. From the Ghana et...
ABSTRACT Accra, the capital city of Ghana, is highly multilingual and has a fair representation of most of the major languages in the country. In this regard, a lot of intercultural activities are expected to occur. This study explores an underrated importance of language use in forming congenial relationships during intercultural encounters such as interethnic marriage ceremonies in Greater Accra. The study analyses how language is negotiated and used during these ceremonies. It reveals th...
ABSTRACT Marriage is a universal cultural practice. However, its enactment is culture specific. Among the Akans, the customary marriage is one important aspect of its culture which is celebrated to establish a lasting union between married couples. Since language and culture are highly interwoven, the importance of language in the contract of Akan customary marriage cannot be over-emphasized. This study does a linguistic analysis of the language of Akan customary marriage, focusing on how l...
ABSTRACT The focus of this thesis is to examine Ewe speakers’ linguistic organization of motion events and how such language patterns develop in Ewespeaking children. The work is situated within Talmy’s Theory of Lexicalization Patterns (which examines the conceptual structure of motion events as well as the typological patterns in which this conceptual structure is parceled out in languages), Slobin’s Thinking-for-Speaking Hypothesis (which explores how particular typological propertie...
ABSTRACT This study focused on the use of videos as teaching/learning materials in the study of French as a foreign language (FFL). Our main objectives were to find out the frequency of the use of videos in French teaching/learning, as well as the difficulties associated them. We also aimed at finding out the perceptions of teachers and students concerning the effective integration of these videos in the teaching/learning of FFL. We conducted an exploratory study in two secondary schools in t...
ABSTRACT This study tries to identifY the impact of Dagara on the teaching and learning of French as a foreign language by third· year students in Senior High School in the Upper West Region. All the students who constitute our sample speak Dagara as their first acquired language (Ll). In the study, we try to bring out the similarities and differences that exist between French and Dagara. This is to enable us identifY the difficulties associated with the transfer of Dagara from the phonetic ...
ABSTRACT Bɩrfʊɔr remains one of the least studied languages in the Gur family. This thesis therefore, takes a detailed look at some Aspects of the phonology of the language. Data for this study is derived from both primary and secondary sources. Primary data was gathered using the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Africa Area Word List 2 (SILCAWL 2) compiled by Douglas Boon (see wordlist in the appendix). Secondary sources include data from existing literature such as the literacy mate...
ABSTRACT Interrogative structures exist in all languages of the world and the use of interrogatives is a central activity in human communication. This dessertaiion seeks to explore the phenomenon of interrogatives as it obtains in Dagara, a dialect of Dagaare spoken in the Upper West Region of Ghana within the framework of the Basic Linguistic Theory as contained in Dixon (2012). The focus of this thesis is to identify and describe the typology of the interrogative clauses in Dagara and the s...
ABSTRACT This thesis investigates the sociopragmatics of requests in Logba, a Ghana-Togo Mountain language spoken in the Hohoe District of the Volta Region of Ghana. It aims at examining the use of request expressions in the language by systematically describing the various strategies and some socio-cultural situations where request expressions are used among the Logbas. The study shows that interlocutors‟ choice of request expression is contingent on variables such as gender, rank, age, po...
ABSTRACT The stored information about the grammar in the mental lexicon of the interlocutors does not only include the morphological, syntactic and semantic components of grammar, but also its phonological component. Phonology is a component of the grammar of language which involves the production, perception as well as the interpretation of sounds. This thesis discusses the phonology and phonological processes that are specific to Dagara, a dialect of Dagaare in the Upper West Region, within...
ABSTRACT This study has set to find out "an investigation on the level of phonological interference in the speech of Hausa-English bilingual: A case study of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto". It was to find out the features that distinguish Hausa accent from the Received Pronunciation. The Recorded speech of ten selected native speakers of Hausa was used. Students who were native speakers of Hausa were sampled. Phonological approach was used using snowball sampling technique. It was ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page - - - - - - - - i Approval Page - - - - - - - - ii Dedication - - - - - - - - iii Acknowledgements - - - - - - - iv Table of Contents - - - - - - - vi CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction - - - - - - - 1 1.1 background of the study - - - - - - 2 1.2 Objectives of the Study - - - - - - 3 1.3 Significance of the Study - - - - - - 3 1.4 Definition of Terms - - - - - - 4 1.5 Purpose of the Study - - - - - - 5 CHAPTER TWO 2.0 Introduction - - - - - - - 6 2.1 Concepts of Borr...