{"id":487,"date":"2024-03-26T23:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T03:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/?p=487"},"modified":"2024-06-27T00:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T04:13:10","slug":"professor-coppock-presents-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/2024\/03\/26\/professor-coppock-presents-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Coppock presents in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Coppock gave an invited talk at the University of Ghana in Accra, for a meeting of a German-based international network of researchers on definiteness. The focus of the workshop was on definiteness-marking and clausal determiners in Akan and other languages of West Africa. For bare nouns in Akan vs. ones marked by the definiteness marker n\u00f3, Coppock advocated for a fresh approach, forgetting about the familiarity vs. uniqueness distinction, inspired by recent work on bare nouns in Mandarin. <\/p>\n<p>The handout is available <a href=\"https:\/\/eecoppock.info\/Coppock-defnetwork-2024-ho.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were many interesting talks. Samson Korsah is pictured here leading a discussion on G\u00e3.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/lislab\/files\/2024\/06\/samson-1-1-477x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2024\/06\/samson-1-1-477x636.jpeg 477w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2024\/06\/samson-1-1.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Among the discoveries of the trip was that there is a stunningly beautiful tree outside the linguistics department at the University of Ghana:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/lislab\/files\/2024\/03\/ughana-lx-tree-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2024\/03\/ughana-lx-tree-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2024\/03\/ughana-lx-tree-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2024\/03\/ughana-lx-tree-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2024\/03\/ughana-lx-tree-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2024\/03\/ughana-lx-tree-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Coppock gave an invited talk at the University of Ghana in Accra, for a meeting of a German-based international network of researchers on definiteness. The focus of the workshop was on definiteness-marking and clausal determiners in Akan and other languages of West Africa. For bare nouns in Akan vs. ones marked by the definiteness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}