Dr. Levina Nyameye Abunya is a Lecturer in the Department of Language and Communication Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She received her BA (Linguistics and Philosophy), MPhil (Linguistics), and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ghana.

She is passionate about teaching and has taught courses in both core and applied linguistics. Her research interests span syntax, morphology, semantics, grammaticalization, descriptive linguistics, language and literacy education, second language acquisition, Kwa linguisticss, and language documentation. Her linguistics research has focused extensively on aspects of the grammar of Kaakye, a North Guan (Kwa Niger-Congo) language spoken mainly in the Oti Region of Ghana.

Dr. Abunya currently serves as a board member of Working Institute of Simple English Linguistics (WISEL) and KaaKye Language Project (KALAP), and as an executive member of Africonnect Academic Hub. She is also a member of the Association of Contemporary African Linguistics (ACAL), and the  Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) and serves as a peer reviewer for some academic journals.

Dr. Abunya is a proud recipient of two research grant awards: the University of Ghana-Carnegie Corporation of New York "Next Generation of Academics in Africa project grant, which supported her PhD research in 2016, and the 9th KNUST Research Fund (KReF)-Multidisciplinary Award, for which she served as the Principal Investigator. The latter focused on developing culturally relevant reading materials to improve children's reading skills, particularly in rural and less-endowed communities.

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