This book grew out of Dagaare field methods courses at the University of Trondheim, Norway and at Stanford University. The monograph covers basic aspects of the phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics of Dagaare, such as vowel harmony, tone, the noun class system, serial verbs and other complex constructions. Some sociolinguistic information about this northern Ghanaian language is also included. It is one of the first monographs on the language by a native speaker.
Adams Bodomo is associate professor in and chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. Charles Marfo is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. Lauren Hall-Lew is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English and linguistics, philology, and phonetics at the University of Oxford.