Associate Member

Josiah Nii Ashie Neequaye works on iconicity, with special focus on ideophones and their interaction with other iconic enrichments such as gestures. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Linguistics, and his Master’s degree in Linguistics, both at the University of Ghana. He is a doctoral researcher in the RTG 2636: “Form-Meaning Mismatches” at the University of Göttingen. His PhD project generally explores the interaction between ideophones and co-speech gestures in Ga (Kwa, Niger-Congo), and how these (conventionalized) ideophone-accompanying gestures compare with ideophone-like expressions in sign language.