Sampson Korsah

Lecturer, University of Cape Coast, since 2018per ORCID

Publishing since 2011, latest 2025

Sampson is a Linguist with the Department of Ghanaian Languages and Linguistics, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He received his Ph.D. from the IGRA Gradschool at Universität Leipzig, Germany. His research broadly focuses on theoretical issues in the syntax and morphology of Kwa (Niger-Congo) languages of West Africa, especially Gã and Akan (both spoken in southern Ghana). He has worked on a range of topics, including pronouns, clausal determiners, marking definiteness,… More on ORCID

Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language
Anthropology
Cultural Studies
Demography
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

In their own words

Syntax
Morphology

Publications: 222011–2025
Citations: 179to those papers
h-index: 7i10-index 6
Field-weighted impact: 6.961.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 33%2 of 6 scored papers
Open access: 67%4 of the 6 whose access is recorded

2 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

Google Scholar shows 211 citations, h-index 7 and i10-index 6 (127 citations and h-index 6 since 2021), as of October 3, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Lecturer, Department o Ghanaian Languages and LinguisticsUniversity of Cape Coastsince 2018

Education

D.Phil., Institut für LinguistikUniversität Leipzig2014–2017
M.Phil. Linguistics, Department of LinguisticsUniversity of Ghana2009–2011
B. A. (Linguistics with Study of Religions), Department of LinguisticsUniversity of Ghana2004–2008

Honours, memberships and service

Publications

22 in all

Deriving (anti)-uniqueness: demonstratives in Ga (Kwa)
2025Journal of SemanticsJournalOpen access0 citations10.1093/jos/ffaf005
Bare singular and plural kinds
2025Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic TheoryJournalOpen accessSenior author

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Language and Linguistics523%
Linguistics and Language314%
Anthropology15%
Cultural Studies15%
Demography15%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology15%
Political Science and International Relations15%

Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation5
Linguistic Variation and Morphology3
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies2
African history and culture analysis1
Categorization, perception, and language1
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories1
Historical Linguistics and Language Studies1
Island Studies and Pacific Affairs1
Language and cultural evolution1
Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis1
Multilingual Education and Policy1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

83% of their 6 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1223344Home

Most frequent partner countries

Germany5
Nigeria1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Ruhr University BochumDE2 papers
University of GhanaGH2 papers
Goethe University FrankfurtDE1 paper
Leipzig UniversityDE1 paper
University of PotsdamDE1 paper
University of IbadanNG1 paper

Where they publish

Diversity in African languages1
Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter1
Institut für Linguistik1
Journal of Semantics1
Köppe1
Languages1
Ms., Leipzig University

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

4Quality education5

Most cited

Tonal reflexes of movement in Asante Twi
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory4
201941 citationsWorld top 10%
Issues in Kwa syntax: Pronouns and clausal determiners
Universität Leipzig
201740 citations
What can tone tell us about successive-cyclic movement? Evidence from Asante Twi
Proceedings of NELS
2016

RegularAssociation of Contemporary African Linguistics

RegularLinguistics Association of Ghanasince 2010

Institük für LinguistikUniversität zu Köln2025

Visiting Researcher, Department of LinguisticsGhent University2023

Faculty, Department of Linguistics, University of GhanaLegon-Potsdam Winter School2023

FacultyAfrican Linguistics School 62022

SecretaryLinguistics Asscociation of Ghana2021–2025

Visiting Doctoral Student, Department of Theoretical and Applied LinguisticsUniversity of Cambridge2016

On their papers

Every institution they have given on a paper.

Cross-disciplinary approaches to Information Structure in Niger-Congo languages

2025OAPEN (The OAPEN Foundation)JournalOpen access0 citations

The Absence of Islands in Akan: The Role of Resumption

2024LanguagesJournalOpen accessFirst author4 citations10.3390/languages9040127

Remarks on nominalised adjectives in Gã

2024Studies in language companion seriesBook chapterFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1075/slcs.235.12kor

Object drop in Gã and the Radical Pro-Drop Generalization

2022Frankfurter Afrikanistische BlätterJournalFirst author0 citations

Tonal reflexes of movement in Asante Twi

2019Natural Language & Linguistic TheoryJournalFirst authorCorresponding41 citations10.1007/s11049-019-09456-9

Removing clausal determiners in Kwa

2019Structure RemovalJournalFirst author6 citations

Islands and resumption in Asante Twi

2019Proceedings of the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal LinguisticsJournalFirst author7 citations

Reduplicated Indefinites in Gã: Concord or Polarity?

2017Universität TübingenReportFirst author3 citations

Issues in Kwa syntax: Pronouns and clausal determiners

2017Universität LeipzigThesisFirst author40 citations

Beyond resumptives and expletives in Akan

2016Diversity in African languagesJournalFirst author14 citations

Replicative Processes in Grammar

2016Institut für LinguistikReport0 citations

What can tone tell us about successive-cyclic movement? Evidence from Asante Twi

2016Proceedings of NELSJournalFirst author21 citations

High tone insertion in Akan as a reflex of successive-cyclic movement

2015Workshop on Morphosyntactic Triggers of Tone. University of LeipzigJournalFirst author2 citations

Tonal reflexes of successive-cyclic movement in Asante Twi

2015Ms., Leipzig UniversityJournalFirst author3 citations

From polarity to reduplication in Gã

2015Ms., Universität LeipzigJournalFirst author4 citations

Ga imperatives and Richness of the Base

2015Universität Leipzig, manuscriptJournalFirst author2 citations

On deriving inherent complement verb constructions

2015Proceedings of ConSOLEJournalFirst author13 citations

Transitivity and inherent complementation in Ga

2011Unpublished M. Phil Thesis, University of Ghana, Legon, GhanaJournalFirst author19 citations

Ms., Universität Leipzig1

How it can be read

67% free to read, of the 6 recorded

Diamond 1 · 5%Free to read and to publish
Gold 1 · 5%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 1 · 5%Open in a subscription journal
Green 1 · 5%A copy in a repository
Closed 2 · 9%Behind a paywall
Unknown 16 · 73%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

2 of 22 papers name a funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft1
National Science Foundation1

Transitivity and inherent complementation in Ga

Unpublished M. Phil Thesis, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

201119 citations

Beyond resumptives and expletives in Akan

Diversity in African languages

201614 citations