6-466: Ameka is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Felix Ameka (born 1957), Ghanaian linguist Louis Ameka (born 1996), Gabonese footballer See also [ edit ] Emeka [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Ameka . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
12-495: A highly influential special issue on 'the universal yet neglected part of speech'. Ameka has pioneered research on the interaction of grammar, culture, and social structure, using the framework of Natural Semantic Metalanguage to elucidate cultural scripts and interactional resources. A long-term research associate at the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics , Ameka has led a large-scale comparative project on
18-438: The intersection of grammar, meaning and culture. His empirical specialisation is on West-African languages. He is currently professor of Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Vitality at Leiden University and teaches in the departments of Linguistics, African Languages and cultures, and African Studies. In recognition of his pioneering work on cross-cultural semantics and his long-standing research ties with Australian universities, he
24-411: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ameka&oldid=1167891651 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Monitored short pages Felix Ameka Felix Ameka (born 1957) is a linguist working on
30-526: The semantics of locative predicates and contributed to cross-linguistic work on the expression of motion events. With Alan Dench and Nick Evans, he co-edited an influential collection on the art of grammar writing. Ameka is editor of the Journal of African Languages and Linguistics together with Azeb Amha . Since 2015, Ameka is President of the World Congress of African Linguistics. In 2021, he
36-551: Was elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of Humanities in 2019. After undergraduate training at the University of Ghana, Legon , Ameka received his PhD in 1991 from Australian National University for a dissertation on the semantic, functional, and discourse-pragmatic aspects of the grammar of Ewe . Ameka has made seminal contributions to the cross-linguistic study of interjections , editing
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