Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

**Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu** an haifeta a (27 Afrilu 1938, a Boston, Massachusetts - 17 Nuwamba 2016, a Boston, Massachusetts) masanin ilimin harshe Ba'amurkiya ce da ke zaune a Ghana, wacce aka sani da aikinta akan harsunan Ghana .  Ta kasance farfesa Emerita a Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka a Jami'ar Ghana, inda ta kasance mai alaƙa tun 1964.

## Ilimi da aiki
Kropp Dakubu ta sami MA a Jami'ar Pennsylvania a 1962. A shekarar 1964 aka nada ta a matsayin mai bincike a Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka a Jami'ar Ghana. Ta sami digiri na uku a harsunan Afirka ta Yamma daga Makarantar Gabas da Nazarin Afirka (SOAS), Jami'ar Landan, a cikin 1968, tare da rubutacciyar takarda mai taken, "Nazarin kwatanta Ga da Adangme tare da magana ta musamman ga fi'ili."   Ta koma Ghana bayan ta kammala digirin digirgir, kuma ta shafe sauran ayyukanta (da rayuwarta) a Jami'ar Ghana. An kara mata girma zuwa matsayin Babban Jami'in Bincike a Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka a 1972, zuwa Mataimakin Farfesa a 1982, kuma zuwa cikakkiyar Farfesa a 1987. Ta kasance mataimakiyar daraktar Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka daga 1987 zuwa 1989.  A cikin watan Yulin 2010, Jami'ar Ghana ta nada Farfesa Emerita don amincewa da ci gaba da karatunta har ma da yin ritaya. 

Ta sadaukar da aikinta ga nazarin harsunan Ghana, inda ta rubuta nazarce-nazarcen harshe da yawa na batutuwa a cikin kowane yarukan Ghana, da kuma gyara daidaitaccen aikin bincike akan *Harsunan Ghana* .  Ta kasance memba mai ƙwazo a *Ƙungiyar Linguistics Society ta Yammacin Afirka*, *Da'irar Linguistics na Accra* a lokacin, da *Ƙungiyar Harsuna ta Ghana* . 

## Fitattun nasarori
Kropp Dakubu ya kasance memba mai kafa (a cikin 1967), tare da Florence Dolphyne da sauransu, na Da'irar Linguistic na Accra, wanda daga baya ya zama Ƙungiyar Linguistics ta Ghana,  kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin Shugaba (1989-1993; 1996- 2000) na Ƙungiyar Linguistics ta Ghana. Ita ce editan *Takardu a Harsunan Ghana* waɗanda suka kasance mu'amalar Sashen Harsuna na Accra da na *Ghana Journal of Linguistics,* mujallar Ƙungiyar Harsuna ta Ghana. Ta kasance memba ta kafa kungiyar Harsuna ta Yammacin Afirka (WALS) wacce aka kafa a Legon a cikin 1965. 

A cikin tsawon rayuwarta na aiki, ta rike mukaman ziyara a jami'o'i da yawa a fadin duniya, ciki har da NTNU Trondheim,  Jami'ar Indiana, Jami'ar Hamburg da Jami'ar Bayreuth .,.

## wallafe-wallafen da aka zaɓa

* Ameka, Felix K da Mary E. Kropp Dakubu, ed. 2008. *Halaye da Modality in Kwa harsuna* . Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
* Kropp Dakubu, Mary E. 1970. Rukunin ƙungiyar magana ta Ga. *Jaridar Harsunan Afirka* 9: 70–76.
* Kropp Dakubu, Mary E. 1986. Downglide, sautuka masu iyo da tambayoyin WH a Ga da Dangme. A cikin *wakilcin phonological na suprasegmentals*, ed. na K. Bogers, H. van der Hulst da M. Mous, 153–173. Dordrecht: Foris.
* Kropp Dakubu, Mary E., ed. 1988. *Harsunan Ghana* . sake bugawa a shekarar 2016. Farfadowar Rubutu. ISBN&nbsp;
* Kropp Dakubu, Mary E. 1997. *Korle ya hadu da teku: Tarihin zamantakewa na Accra* . Jami'ar Oxford Press. ISBN&nbsp;
* Kropp Dakubu, Mary E. 2004. Ga clauses ba tare da batutuwan da suka dace ba. *Jaridar Harsunan Afirka da Harsuna* 25: 1-40.

## Duba kuma

* Florence Dolphyne
* Alan Stewart Duthie

## Manazarta