Abraham Kwesi Bisilki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1631701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abraham Kwesi Bisilki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abraham Kwesi |
| FAMILY NAME | Bisilki |
| SIGNATURE | BISILKI A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Education, Winneba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1231-6059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tone in Mabia Languages
The Mabia languages belong to the Niger–Congo family and are spoken primarily across the savannah and Sahelian regions of West Africa, including northern Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali. Tone plays a crucial role in these languages, shaping both lexical meaning and grammatical structure. This study is a synthesis or an overview of previously described facts about the tonal phenomena in six Mabia languages, …
Online linguistic landscaping and indigenous languages in multilingual Ghana
Relativization in Likpakpaln (Ghana)
This article provides the first systematic account of relativization in Likpakpaln, an understudied Mabia (Gur) language of Ghana. Broadly speaking, Likpakpaln features two types of relative clauses: restrictive and non-restrictive. Both types of relative clauses are finite and marked by a relative pronoun as well as a clausal definite determiner. The first type is always headed by an indefinite noun. The second is invariably headed by a definite…
Grammaticalised and non-grammaticalised conceptualisations of liyil 'head' in Likpakpaln (Konkomba)
The heart has caught me’
We provide a first documentation and analysis of anger metaphors in Likpakpaln, a little-studied Mabia (Gur) language, primarily spoken in Northern Ghana. We adopt Conceptual Metaphor Theory as the analytical framework for this study. The study of emotional body-part metaphors and their lexicalisation patterns in Likpakpaln is interlaced with nominal and clausal morphosyntax as well as grammatical relations. Anger is conceptualised in terms of li…
Adjectives in Likpakpaln (Konkomba)
Likpakpaln is a little-described Mabia (Gur) language of northern Ghana. Drawing on primary data, this first study of adjectives in Likpakpaln concludes that the language has a small, closed adjective class of about 20 members that shares grammatical properties with nouns and verbs to varying degrees. Contrary to what is the case in other Mabia languages, Likpakpaln adjectives lack inherent class markers. We identify three types of adjectives, di…
A study of personal names among the Bikpakpaam (the Konkomba) of Ghana
A study of personal names among the Bikpakpaam (the Konkomba) of Ghana
The heart has caught me’
We provide a first documentation and analysis of anger metaphors in Likpakpaln, a little-studied Mabia (Gur) language, primarily spoken in Northern Ghana. We adopt Conceptual Metaphor Theory as the analytical framework for this study. The study of emotional body-part metaphors and their lexicalisation patterns in Likpakpaln is interlaced with nominal and clausal morphosyntax as well as grammatical relations. Anger is conceptualised in terms of li…
Grammaticalised and non-grammaticalised conceptualisations of liyil 'head' in Likpakpaln (Konkomba)
A study of personal names among the Bikpakpaam (the Konkomba) of Ghana
Adjectives in Likpakpaln (Konkomba)
Likpakpaln is a little-described Mabia (Gur) language of northern Ghana. Drawing on primary data, this first study of adjectives in Likpakpaln concludes that the language has a small, closed adjective class of about 20 members that shares grammatical properties with nouns and verbs to varying degrees. Contrary to what is the case in other Mabia languages, Likpakpaln adjectives lack inherent class markers. We identify three types of adjectives, di…
The heart has caught me’
We provide a first documentation and analysis of anger metaphors in Likpakpaln, a little-studied Mabia (Gur) language, primarily spoken in Northern Ghana. We adopt Conceptual Metaphor Theory as the analytical framework for this study. The study of emotional body-part metaphors and their lexicalisation patterns in Likpakpaln is interlaced with nominal and clausal morphosyntax as well as grammatical relations. Anger is conceptualised in terms of li…
Grammaticalised and non-grammaticalised conceptualisations of liyil 'head' in Likpakpaln (Konkomba)
Relativization in Likpakpaln (Ghana)
This article provides the first systematic account of relativization in Likpakpaln, an understudied Mabia (Gur) language of Ghana. Broadly speaking, Likpakpaln features two types of relative clauses: restrictive and non-restrictive. Both types of relative clauses are finite and marked by a relative pronoun as well as a clausal definite determiner. The first type is always headed by an indefinite noun. The second is invariably headed by a definite…
Online linguistic landscaping and indigenous languages in multilingual Ghana
Tone in Mabia Languages
The Mabia languages belong to the Niger–Congo family and are spoken primarily across the savannah and Sahelian regions of West Africa, including northern Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali. Tone plays a crucial role in these languages, shaping both lexical meaning and grammatical structure. This study is a synthesis or an overview of previously described facts about the tonal phenomena in six Mabia languages, …
Linguistics (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Conceptual metaphor (2 works) · Construal level theory (2 works)