Dr. Obed Nii Broohm

Senior Lecturer


Dept: Language and Communication Sciences
Dept. of Language & Communication Sciences,
Faculty of Social Sciences,KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana.

Office address: Second Floor, Department of Language & Communication Sciences Building, KNUST.

Email: obed.broohm@knust.edu.gh

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Research Areas/Interests

Morphology and Morphological Theory, Syntax, Phonology English Linguistics  Language Documentation.  Blended Learning/E-learning ...~more


Publications

    JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED)

    1. Appah, C.K.I., Abunya, L.N., & Broohm, O.N. (2026). Akan Noun-Noun Compounds: A Construction Morphology AccountNordic Journal of African Studies 35 (2) 338-374
    2. Abunya, L. N., Broohm, O. N., & Appah, C. K. I. (2025). Lexical nominalization in KaakyeJournal of West African Languages, 52 (1), 32-55.
    3. Duku, B. I., Broohm, O. N. & ResCue, E. (2024). Exploring the semantic and pragmatic functions of modal auxiliaries: A case study of commencement speechesLegon Journal of the Humanities. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v35i1.6
    4. Owusu, C. J. and Broohm, O.N. (2024). Reporting Verbs in Academic Writing: A Case Study of Mphil Theses in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology. E Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.202451118 
    5. Clement K.I. Appah and Obed N. Broohm and . (2023). Partial Motivation in Kwa: The case of complex nominals with non-lexical bases. Lingue e Linguaggio XXII.2:231–262
    6. Obed N. Broohm, Abudulai Akuamah, & Patrick Ntiamoah. (2023). Misspellings in the Kumasi cityscape: An analysis of Asante-Twi based signages. Journal of West African Languages 50: 122-145
    7. Obed N. Broogm & Charles O. Marfo. (2023). Noun-noun compounding in Esahie. Ghana Journal of Linguisitics 12.3:18-43. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v12i3.2 
    8. Henry K. Ayitey, Obed N. Broohm. & Gladys M. Edjah. (2022). Genre Analysis of Chief Examiners’ Reports from Selected Colleges of Education in Ghana. E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Vol.3 (4): 115-129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2022343 
    9. Obed N. Broohm & Chiara Melloni. (2021). Action nominalization: A view from Esahie. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 42(1): 27–62
    10. Obed N Broohm & with Chiara Melloni. (2020). Mind your tones! The role of tonal morphology in Kwa action nominalization. In Gianina Iordachioaia & Elena Soare (guest eds.), Special collection on Nominalization, Zeitschrift fur Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation 4(2): 36-59 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2020.02.03 
    11. Obed N. Broohm(2019). Lexical and Clausal Nominalization in EsahieA descriptive account. Journal of West African Languages 46 (2): 125-145.
    12. Clement K. I. Appah, Obed N. Broohm & Richard A. Lawer. (2019). Beyond cardinals and ordinals: A constructionist account of other
      numeral types in Akan
      . Nordic Journal of African Studies 28(2): 1-27
    13. Obed N. Broohm & Stefan Rabanus. (2018). Agreement and Syncretism in Esahie. Legon Journal of the Humanities 29 (1): 96-131. 
    14. Obed N. Broohm. (2017). Noun Classification in Esahie. Ghana Journal of Linguistics 6 (3): 81-122. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjl.v6i3.4 





     


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