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My name is Mercy Motte a graduate Linguistics student at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. I did my Bachelors in Linguistics at the University of Ghana which i completed in 2005.I am interested in languages and so will like to do some research into endagered languages but of course using my language as a springboard. I come from Sovie Tsudzi not too big a village in the Kpando District of the volta region of Ghana. My mother tongue is Ewe. Other languages i speak fluently and also can read and write include Akan, Ga and English. I also have a strong passion to teach Linguistics when the opportunity pops up. I will not decline at all when i get this unique opportunity. 

Ewe is one of the clusters of languages under Gbe. Gbe has Ewe, Fon and Aja. Ewe is spoken in the Southeastern parts of Ghana and southern Togo. Togo is a country on its own. It is not part of Ghana. According to research, currently, there are about 2.5 to 3 million speakers of Ewe.

PROJECTS I WANT TO LOOK AT 
For now, i am trying to come up with a project (thesis work) in phonology on the Ewe Focus Marker \e\. My motivation is to critically unearth the phonological reason(s) for the choice of the vowel \e\ and not any of the other vowels. Are there reasons such as vowel harmony, obligatory contour principle or the choice is simply random or arbitrary. A lot of the work on focus in Ewe is purely descriptive. For instance, stating and describing their positions in syntactic structures. I will want to find reasons for the choice in the first place.

On tones in Ewe, i will also be interested in examining the results when tones interact in a prosodic word. The word could be a single word or a compound word. Are there cases of elision, assimilation and are there evidences for these phenomena.


Syntax interests me too. Watch out for a project i will come up with. 
Do you mind being in my camp?

i love linguistics!
--[[User:Mercy Motte|Mercy Motte]] 09:02, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Contact Mercy Motte mercymotte@yahoo.com