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  1. Evaluative adjectives in preprint abstracts from STEM fields: Diachronic trends and semantic shift

    Article • Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, December 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  2. Natural language ontology: diachronic restructuring of nominal classification in Dagaare

    Article • Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, April 2026, De Gruyter

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  3. Relations between morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge and word reading in different orthographies and scripts: Evidence from Africa and Asia

    Article • Cognitive Development, April 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  4. projection in Dagaare

    Article • Language Context and Text The Social Semiotics Forum, September 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  5. Is there a polarity-prominent language? A typological perspective on Dagaare verbal systems

    Article • Lingua, September 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  6. Reading achievement among bilingual children in a postcolonial English context: the importance of cross-linguistic transfer and socio-economic status

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  7. Testing university students’ morphological awareness of English as a second-language

    Article • System, June 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  8. Methodological considerations in language description: an interview with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

    Article • Journal of World Languages, March 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  9. What is finiteness in Dagaare?

    Article • Journal of World Languages, July 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  10. Construing Joy as Body Parts in Akan: Synergizing Conceptual Metaphor and Transitivity Analyses

    Article • WORD, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  11. ‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: a transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism

    Article • January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  12. What Really Counts in Nominal Classification in Dagaare: A Mabia Language

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  13. Approaches to Specialized Genres, edited by Kathy Ling Lin, Isaac N. Mwinlaaru & Dennis Tay

    Article • Ibérica, December 2022, InnoRenew CoE

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  14. Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  15. ‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: a transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism

    Article • Critical Discourse Studies, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  16. Syntactic position, qualitative features and extended demonstrative functions: Dagaare distal demonstratives nὲ and lὲ in interactional discourse

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  17. Motivation for Using Multiple Deictic items in the Dagaare Nominal Group

    Article • WORD, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  18. Approaches to Specialized Genres

    Article • December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  19. Introduction

    Article • December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  20. Towards a meta-theory of genre

    Article • December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  21. The morphology-vocabulary- reading mechanism and its effect on students’ academic achievement in an English L2 context

    Article • Journal of English for Academic Purposes, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  22. Towards a decade of synergising corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: a meta-analysis

    Article • Corpora, August 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  23. Emotion, Attitude, and Value in Primary School Chinese Textbooks

    Article • July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  24. The trickster as a semiotic figure for construing postcolonial experience: Kwakye’s “The Clothes of Nakedness”

    Article • Journal of the African Literature Association, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  25. ‘The axial rethink’ – making sense of language: an interview with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

    Article • Functional Linguistics, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  26. The use of clause initial and final particles to show attitude in Dagaare

    Article • April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  27. On Quoting and Reporting

    Article • WORD, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru, Jorge Arús-Hita, Dr Abhishek Kumar Kashyap, Mohamed Ali Bardi

  28. The grammar of interaction across Niger-Congo languages

    Article • March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  29. Bridging boundaries across genre traditions

    Article • Functions of Language, December 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  30. A tale of two distal demonstratives in Dagaare: Reflections on directionality principles in grammaticalisation

    Article • Language Sciences, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  31. A survey of studies in systemic functional language description and typology

    Article • Functional Linguistics, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  32. Style, Character, and the Theme of Struggle and Change: Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah

    Article • Research in African Literatures, January 2014, Indiana University Press

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  33. ‘I'll Deal with You …’: Power and Domination in Discourse in a Ghanaian Educational Context

    Article • Power and Education, September 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru

  34. When 'Sir' and 'Madam are not: Address terms and reference terms students use for faculty in a Ghanaian university

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, August 2013, Equinox Publishing

    Dr Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire Mwinlaaru