Language

Anaphoric markers

	Name	Description	Answerset
1	Null Object Pronoun	Missing object interpreted as pronoun	Ga	Sections: Marker_shape(1), Readings(1)
2	Null Object REFL	Missing object interpreted as reflexive	Ga	Sections: Marker_shape(2), Structural_context(2), Readings(3)
3	pronoun	simplex pronoun	Ga	Details
4	pronoun-BODY	pronoun-body	Ga	Sections: Marker_shape(14), Readings(3)
5	Pronoun-Intensifier + Pronoun-he		Ga	Sections: Marker_shape(12)

Example Sentences

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Language Properties

Some syntactic properties of the language

Word order

Consistently SVO

General information about the language

ISO code (ISO 639-3), aka Ethnologue code

gaa

Language name

Dialect/variety reported

Spoken in the capital city of Ghana, Accra and surrounding areas

Genetic classification (Ethnologue)

Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Kwa, Nyo, Ga-Dangme

Language group (Ethnologue top level)

Niger-Congo

Language consultant information

Consultant name

Akua Agyei-Owusu Campbell

Gender of consultant

female

Occupation

Graduate Student (Linguistics)

Language biography

Ga is the native language of the consultant. She also speaks English. The consultant's father spoke Akan and English at home, and her mother spoke Ga and English. The consultant received school instruction in English.

Learned language at age

Mother Tongue

Familiarity with the language

native speaker

Formal knowledge of the grammar

specialized knowledge, e.g., as language teacher or linguist

Who participated in the elicitation?

Akua Agyei-Owusu Campbell and Ken Safir using the Anaphora Questionnaire

Status of data in database

Is the information for the sentences entered complete?

Data for entered sentences is incomplete

Is the data for markers in this language complete?

Data for markers incomplete

Is the sentence data likely to change soon?

No new sentence data will be entered in the near future