Publications

Published

Angsongna, Alexander., & Bodomo, Adams. 2026. Talking politics: Deception, persuasion, and linguistic strategies in Ghanaian political discourse. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 13, 102436.

Angsongna, Alexander, Moges Zewiddu Teshome, Carola Koblitz, Eunice Wangui Stuhlhofer, Yingliang Zhang, Elisabeth Knittelfelder, and Adams Bodomo. 2025. Toward the Third Liberation of Africa: Revitalizing Pan-Africanism for Economic, Political, and Linguistic Independence in the Sahel Region. African Studies Quarterly 23 (2) 1-25.

Angsongna, Alexander. 2025. Phonotactic constraints and learnability: analyzing Dagaare vowel harmony with tier-based strictly local (TSL) grammar. Open Linguistics, 11(1), 20250073.

Douglas Pulleyblank, Darius Adjong, Alexander Angsongna, Lisa Matthewson, and Ariwan Addy Suhairi. 2024. Ri-investigating inverse number in Dagaare. In Bochnak, M. Ryan, Eva Csipak, Lisa Matthewson, Marcin Morzycki and Daniel K. E. Reisinger (eds.), Papers in honour of Hotze Rullmann. Vancouver, BC: UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Volume 9.

Angsongna, Alexander. 2023. Aspects of the morphophonology of Dagaare (Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia).

Samuel Akinbo, Alexander Angsongna, Avery Ozburn, Murray Schellenberg & Douglas Pulleyblank. 2022. Velar Tap in Dàgáárè. In Galen Sibanda, Deo Ngonyani, Jonathan Choti & Ann Biersteker (eds.), Descriptive and theoretical approaches to African linguistics: Selected papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 1–7. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.639

Angsongna, Alexander & Akinbo, S. (2022). Dàgáárè (Central). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 52(2), 341-367.

Alexander, Angsongna. 2021. Tone Alternation in Dàgáárè verbs: Perfectives and Imperfectives. Studies in African Linguistics, 50(2), 326-345.

Angsongna, Alexander. 2019. Dàgáárè complex constructions: Serial verb constructions, multi-aspectual constructions and coordination. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 40(2), 205-234.

Ozburn, A., Akinbo, S., Angsongna, A., Schellenberg, M., & Pulleyblank, D. 2018. Dagaare [a] is not neutral to ATR harmony. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(3), 1938-1938.

Angsongna, Alexander., Ato Armah, F., Boamah, S., Hambati, H., Luginaah, I., Chuenpagdee, R., & Campbell, G. 2016. A systematic review of resource habitat taboos and human health outcomes in the context of global environmental change. Global Bioethics, 27(2-4), 91-111.

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

Angsongna Alexander. Double object constructions: A vP-shell perspective. Studies in African Linguistics

Alexander Angsongna. Laughing with a message: the subtle power of cartoons in Ghana’s public discourse and communication. Arts (under review)

Alexander Angsongna., Darius Adjong & Adams Bodomo. English to Dagaare: phonological transformations in loanword integration. Word (under review)

Alexander Angsongna. Phonotactic constraints and morph set interactions in Dagaare rounding and other harmonies. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (under review)

Alexander Angsongna, Maxwell Bogpene, Vitus Ngaanuma, & Adams Bodomo. From “The incompetent one”, “Mother serpent of corruption” to “Economic Maguire”: Political labelling and identity construction in Ghana. Social Sciences (under review)

Alexander Angsongna, Samuel Alhassan Issah, Hasiyatu Abubakari, Abraham Bisilki, Darius Adjong, Samuel Awinkene Atintono, & Adams Bodomo. Tone in Mabia: Structure and processes. Languages (under review)

Alexander Angsongna, Solomon Kofi Amoah, Ebenezer Darkwah Odame, & Danladi Abah. Voting against governance failure: Public perceptions in Ghana’s 2024 electoral shift. JMAS (Under review)

CONFERENCES PRESENTATIONS

Hasiyatu Abubakari, Alexander Angsongna, and Adams Bodomo. Reduplication in Serial Verb Constructions: An LFG Approach to Mabia Languages. (Poster presentation). The 30th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference – LFG25 (July 22-24, 2025). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

Alexander Angsongna., Darius Adjong, & Adams Bodomo. English to Dagaare: phonological transformations in loanword integration. World Congress of African Linguistics (August 5-9, 2024), University of Nairobi, Kenya

Laura Griffin., & Alexander Angsongna. An Analysis of tone delinking in Future context in Dagaare (Central). Annual Conference of African Linguistics (May 2-4, 2024), McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Liu, Yadong, Arian Shamei, Una Chow, Gina Pineda, Alexander Angsongna, Gillian De Boer, and Bryan Gick. Head Movement and F0 Variation in Blind and Sighted Speakers Speech. (Paper presentation). Association for Laboratory Phonology (July 6-8, 2020), University of British Columbia & Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

Angsongna, Alexander .2019. Morpho-phonology of the Dagaare imperfective suffix: rouning, length and diphthongs. ACAL 50, UBC, Vancouver, Canada

Angsongna A, & Yuan Y. 2018. Serial Verb Constructions in Medumba. ACAL 49, Michigan state University, Michigan, USA

Ozburn A, Akinbo, S Angsongna A. Murray , Pulleyblank, D. 2018. Velar tap in Dagaare. ACAL 49, Michigan state University, Michigan, USA