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Monday, 07 May, 2012

Adams B. Bodomo   


abbodomo at hku dot hk

 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books & Monographs | Journal papers & Book Sections

• 11 Books and Monographs

• Bodomo, A. B. 2012. Africans in China: A Sociocultural Study and Its Implications on Africa-China Relations. Cambria Press. ISBN: 9781604977905. [Description]
  [Interviews about the book]

• Bodomo, A. B. 2009. Computer-Mediated Communication for Linguistics and Literacy: Technology and Natural Language Education. IGI Global, Hershey, PA,USA. 374 pages.

• Bodomo, A. B. in preparation. The Grammatical Structure of Zhuang [300 pages of primary fieldwork data and analysis].

• Bodomo, A. B., Charles Marfo and Lauren Hall-Lew. 2010. Let's Speak Twi: A Proficiency Course in Akan Language and Culture, Stanford University CSLI Publications, 150 pages. [Front cover]

• Bodomo, A. B. and Pan Yanqin 2007. A Proficiency Course in Zhuang: Fieldwork Documentation and Revitalization of a Language and Culture of Southwestern China. Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 160 pages. ISBN 962-7578-09-6.

• Bodomo, A. B. 2004. A Dagaare-Cantonese-English Lexicon for Lexicographical Field Research Training (Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher vol. 14), 194 pp., ISBN 3-89645-009-3. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe Verlag. [Front cover] [This project won the Laurence Urdang DSNA Award for Lexicographical Research in Feb 2001]

• Bodomo, A. B. 2003. (co-edited with K. K. Luke) Lexical-Functional Grammar Analysis of Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph 19. approx 200 pages [Introductory Chapter (pdf)] [Front cover]

• Bodomo, A. B. 2000. Dagaare: Languages of the World Materials No. 165. Lincom Europa, Munchen, Germany. 65 pages.[Extended Essay] ISBN 3895862509. 

• Bodomo, A. B. 1997a. The Structure of Dagaare. Stanford Monographs in African Languages, CSLI publications, Stanford, USA. 159 pages. [Order Info] 

  • This book has been reviewed in the following journals:

    • Language (vol. 77, No. 4, 2001) [Full text in pdf]

    • Africa Today (vol.46, No. 1),

    • Anthropological Linguistics (vol.42, 2000, No.1)

    • Notes on Linguistics. 

• Bodomo, A. B. 1997. Paths and Pathfinders: Exploring the Syntax and Semantics of Complex Verbal Predicates in Dagaare and other Languages. Doctoral dissertation, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. 306 pages.

 

• 60 Journal Articles and Book Sections
  
  

o    Bodomo, A. and Grace Ma. 2012. We are what we eat: food in the process of community formation and identity shaping among African traders in Guangzhou and Yiwu. African Diaspora, 5(1)   

o    Bodomo, A. and Roberval Silva. 2012. Language Matters: The Role of Linguistic Identity in the Establishment of the Lusophone African Community in Macau. African Studies 71 (1), pages 71-90. Prepublished version.

o    Bodomo, A. B. 2010. Strategies for enhancing and evaluating interactivity in web-based learning and teaching. International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 5 (4), 18 - 43.

o    Bodomo, A. B. 2010. Documentation and Revitalization of the Zhuang Language and Culture of Southwestern China Through Linguistic Fieldwork. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education (DIME), 4(3), 179-191. doi:10.1080/15595690903442298

o    Bodomo, A. B. 2010. The African trading community in Guangzhou: an emerging bridge for Africa-China relations. China Quarterly. No. 203, pages 693 - 707.

      (This article is among the top 10 most read China Quarterly articles since December 2010: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/mostReadArticle?jid=CQY&modal=m)

o    Bodomo A. B. and Ken Hiraiwa. 2010. Relativization in Dagaare and its Typological Implications: Left-Headed but Internally-Headed. Lingua, Vol 120 (2010) 953 - 983. DOI information: 10.1016/j.lingua. 2009.06.008

o  Bodomo, A. B., Jemima Anderson and Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie. 2010. A kente of many colours: multilingualism as a complex ecology of language shift in Ghana. Sociolinguistic Studies . Vol 3, Issue 3, pages 357 - 379.

o    Wu, Yicheng and Adams Bodomo. 2009. Classifiers are not determiners. Linguistic Inquiry. Vol. 40 (3), 487-503.

o       Anttila, Arto and Adams Bodomo. 2009. Prosodic morphology in Dagaare. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 38) , Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, Massaschusetts, 56-68. [Abstract] [Table of contents]

o       Hiraiwa, K and Adams Bodomo. 2008. Object-sharing as symmetric sharing: Predicate clefting and serial verbs in Dagaare. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Vol 26 No. 4, Pages 795 - 832 DOI 10.1007/s11049-008-9056-y.

o       Hu, Yuxiu and Adams Bodomo. 2009.  Harbinglish: L1 influence on the learning of English by High School students in Harbin, China. Asian EFL Journal. Vol 11 No. 3, Pages 190-233. [Abstract]

o        Hiraiwa, K and Adams Bodomo. 2008. Object-sharing as symmetric sharing: Evidence from Dàgáárè. The Proceedings of the WCCFL 26. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 243-251.

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2008. Instructional interactivity in a web-based learning community.  In Lilian Esnault (ed). Web-Based Education and Pedagogical Technologies: Solutions for Learning Applications, IGI Global Books, 131 - 146. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2008. Event structure and grammar. In Patrick Colm Hogan (ed). Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2007. An emerging African-Chinese community in Hong Kong: the case of Tsim Sha Tsui's Chungking Mansions, In Kwesi Kwaa Prah (ed). Afro-Chinese Relations: Past, Present and Future. Cape Town, South Africa, The Centre for Advanced Studies in African Societies, 367-389.

o        Mora, M. and Adams Bodomo. 2007. Documentation is documentation and theory is theory: a reply to Daniel Avorgbedor's commentary on "Documenting spoken and sung texts of the Dagaaba of West Africa", Empirical Musicology Review, 2(2): 152-154.

o        Bodomo, A. B. and  Manolete Mora. 2007. Documenting spoken and sung texts of the Dagaaba of West Africa. Empirical Musicology Review, 2(3): 81-102.

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2007. Mobile phone texting in Hong Kong. In David Taniar (ed). Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing And Commerce. Information Science Reference. Idea Group Inc. [Abstract]

o       Bodomo, A. B. and C. Marfo. 2007. The morphophonology of noun classes in Dagaare and Akan, Studi Linguistici e Filologici Online, 4.2. [Full text in pdf]

o        Wong, M. L. Y. and Adams Bodomo. 2006. On the sequential ordering of adverbs in Mandarin Chinese, Acta Orientalia, 67: 325-353.

o        Bodomo, A. B.  2006. The structure of ideophones in African and Asian languages: The case of Dagaare and Cantonese. In Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspectives, Harvard University.
edited by John Mugane, John P. Hutchison, and Dee A. Worman. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2006. Interactivity in web-based learning. International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies. Idea Group, 2006, 1: 18-30. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2006. Preface to the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, Vol. 2, Issue 1, i-vi. [Full text in pdf]

o        Bodomo, A. B. and Olivia S.-C. Lam. (eds.). 2006. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, Vol. 2, Issue 1. [Table of contents]

o        Bodomo, A. B., C. Marfo, A. Cunningham, and Sally Y. K. Mok. 2006. A unicode keyboard for African languages: The case of Dagaare and Twi. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1-20. [Abstract]

o        Marfo, C. and Adams Bodomo. 2005. Information structuring in Akan question-word fronting and focus constructions. Studies in African Linguistics, 34.2: 179-208. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2005. "Constructing knowledge through online bulletin board discussions". Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, edited by C. Howard et al. Idea Group Inc. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2005. "Interaction in web-based learning". Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, edited by C. Howard et al. Idea Group Inc. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2004. "Joan Bresnan". Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols, edited by P. Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn.

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2004. "Moore and the Gur languages". Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2 vols, edited by P. Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn.  

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2004. The syntax of nominalized complex verbal predicates in Dagaare. Studia Linguistica. 58 (1): 1-22.

o        Bodomo, A. B. and K. Hiraiwa.  2004. Relativization in Dagaare. Journal of Dagaare Studies. Vol. 4.53-75.

o        Bodomo, A. B., Olivia S.-C. Lam and Natalie S.-S. Yu. 2004. Double object and serial verb benefactive constructions in Cantonese. Acta Orientalia. 65: 69-89. [Table of contents]

o        Bodomo, A. B., M. L. Lam, and Carmen K. M. Lee. 2003. Some students still read books in the 21st century: a study of user preferences for print and electronic libraries. Reading Matrix. 3 (3). Special Issue on Reading and Technology. [Full text in pdf]

o        Bodomo, A. B., K. K. Luke, and A. Anttila. 2003. Evaluating interactivity in web-based learning. Global E-Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Education. Volume III.

o        Bodomo, A. B. and Y. M. Lee. 2003. On the function COMP in Cantonese. In: Lexical- Functional Grammar Analysis of Chinese, edited by A. B. Bodomo and K. K. Luke,  Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph 19. [Abstract]

o        Luke, K. K., A. B. Bodomo, and O. T. Nancarrow. 2003. On the subject condition in Cantonese. In: Lexical- Functional Analysis of Chinese, edited by A. B. Bodomo and K. K. Luke, Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph 19. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2002a. The syntax of serial verbs in Dagaare. In: New Directions in Ghanaian Linguistics, edited by F. K. Ameka and E. K. Osam. Accra, Ghana: Black Mask Ltd. 27-53.

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2002b. Linguistics.com: evaluating language resources on the internet. In: Reflecting on Language in Education, edited by V. Crew, C. Davison, and B. Mak. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Institute of Education. pps. 153-167.

o        Bodomo, A. B. and Carmen K. M. Lee. 2002. Changing forms of language and literacy: technobabble and mobile phone communication. Literacy and Numeracy Studies. 12(1): 23-44. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2001a. The temporal systems of Dagaare and Dagbane: Re-appraising the philosophy of linguistic relativity. Journal of Cultural Studies 3 (1): 43-55. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2001b. Dagaare. In: Facts about the World's Languages: an Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages: Past and Present, edited by J. Garry et. al.. New York and Dublin: The H. W. Wilson Press.

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2001c. History from linguistics: Loanwords in Dagaare as sources of information for a cultural history of the Dagaaba. Journal of Dagaare Studies, 1(1):15-24. [Abstract]

o        Luke, K. K. and A. B. Bodomo. 2001. A comparative study of the semantics of serial verb constructions in Dagaare and Cantonese. Languages in Contrast. 3 (2):165-180. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 2000. A comparative study of English small clauses and Dagaare serial verbs. In Languages and Linguistics. Issue 6, pps 37-56. [Abstract]

o        Anttila, A. and A. B. Bodomo. 2000. Tonal polarity in Dagaare. In: Trends in African Linguistics, vol. 4: Advances in African Linguistics, edited by V. Carstens and F. Parkinson. Trenton, NJ: African World Press. pps. 119-134. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 1998. Serial verbs as complex predicates in Dagaare and Akan. In: Trends in African Linguistics, vol. 2, Language History and Linguistics Description in Africa, edited by I. Maddieson and T. Hinnebusch. pps. 195-204. Africa World Press.

o        Bodomo, A. B. 1997. Linguistics, education, and politics: An interplay on Ghanaian languages. In Herbert, R. (ed.) African Linguistics at the Crossroads: Papers from Kwaluseni. pps. 469-484. Rudiger Koppe Verlang, Koln. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. and Samuel Agyei-Mensah. 1997. Integrating literacy and health education for a sustainable development in Africa. In Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies. vol.16, pps 5-20. Stockholm, Sweden. [Abstract]

o        Bodomo, A. B. 1996. On language and development in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Ghana. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 5 (2): 31-53.

o        Bodomo, A. B. 1994. Language, culture, and history in northern Ghana: An introduction to the Mabia linguistic group. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 3 (2):31-53. [Abstract]