EDUCATION
BA, PhD Linguistics (University of Ghana)
2013
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Senior Lecturer
Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana
2014-
Research Associate
Department of English and American Studies
Humboldt University, Berlin
2018-
Akan Language Instructor
University Study Abroad Consortium
University of Ghana, Legon
2015-
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Semantics of (In)Definiteness
Information structure
Causative syntax and semantics
Tense and aspect
African language influence in the diaspora
PUBLICATIONS
Book chapters
Obadele Kambon, Reginald Akuoko Duah & Clement I. K. Appah. 2018. Serial verb nominalization in Akan: the question of intervening elements. In Emily Clem, Peter Jenks & Hannah Sande (eds.), Theory and description in African Linguistics: Selected papers from ACAL 47, 361–386. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Duah, R. Akuoko and Sarah Marjie. 2012. Code-Switching in Written Communication: Factors and Motivations. In Helen Lauer and Joana Boampong (eds.), Creating in Diversity: Exploring our Differences for Nationhood, 97 – 121. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.
Duah, R. Akuoko, Abigail Ayiglo and Afua M. Blay. 2010. The Dilemma of African American English Identity: A Case of African Language Influence? In Helen Lauer, Nana Aba Amfo and Jemima Anderson (eds.), Identity Meets Nationality: Voices from the Humanities, 111-135. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers.
Journal articles
Grubic, Mira, Agata Renans and R. Akuoko Duah. To appear. Focus, Exhaustivity and Existence in Akan, Ga and Ngamo. Linguistics.
Appah, Clement K. I., R. Akuoko Duah and Ọbádélé Kambon. 2017. Akan Noun–Verb Nominal Compounds: The Exocentric Synthetic View. Language Sciences 64, 1-15.
Kambon, Obadele and R. Akuoko Duah. 2017. Non-African Linguistics Be Like “This is a New Way to Quote!”. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 6(2), 85-115.
Duah, R. Akuoko. 2015. Exhaustive Focus Marking in Akan. Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 19, 1-28.
Osam, E. Kweku, R. Akuoko Duah and Afua M. Blay. 2011. The So-Called Postpositions in Akan: A Reconsideration. Journal of West African Languages XXXVII (2), 107-118.