Dumsor and Dumsor-Based Neologisms

Clement Kwamina Insaidoo Appah () is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Ghana. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University in the UK and was a Commonwealth Scholar (2008–2012). His research interest lies in Kwa morpho-syntax. His recent work has been in Linguistic Morphology and Morphological theory. He has published extensively on issues such as compounding, nominalization, diminutives, numeral constructions, serial verbs constructions and humor-inspired lexicalia. An area of emphasis in his work has been how to account for properties of complex linguistic expressions that do not come from their constituents.

Gladys Nyarko Ansah () holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK, and an MRes in Cognitive Linguistics from the University of Brighton, UK. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon. Her research interests lie in the following areas of language studies: language in education, language and migration, language and politics, language and culture, bi/multilingualism, and language and cognition. Her recent publications include: The choice of English as a home language in urban Ghana. In Current Issues in Language Planning, 1–17. (2019), and Acculturation and integration: Language dynamics in the rural north-urban south mobility situation in Ghana. In Legon Journal of the Humanities, 29(1), 53–72. (2018).