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I am a postdoctoral researcher in the General Linguistics group at Bielefeld University, working with Prof. Dr. Jutta Hartmann. My research focuses on the syntax of information structure in natural language and its interface with morphology and semantics. I am particularly interested in phenomena such as focus and focus sensitivity, question formation, islandhood, resumption, and ellipsis in West African languages
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By examining understudied languages (through original fieldwork), my research aims to motivate cross-linguistic generalizations as well as identify parameters that illuminate the human cognitive capacity of language.
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Previously, I worked as a research assistant as part of the DFG-funded project on the “VP-periphery of the Mabia languages”, spoken in Ghana (PI: Prof. Dr. Katharina Hartmann). I received my PhD in linguistics from Goethe University Frankfurt in 2025 under the supervision of Katharina Hartmann and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine.
News & Upcomings
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Publication alert!
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My paper on the "The syntax of focus in ÌkálèÌ£" just got published by the Language Science Press as part of a collection titled Crossdisciplinary approaches to Information Structure in Niger-Congo languages, Eds: Akinlabi, A., S. Korsah, S. Rose, and A.-R. Sulemana.
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I have successfully defended my doctoral dissertation on "Focus Sensitivity in Mabia and Yoruboid"!
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The thesis will be made public soon!​​​​​
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24-27/02/2026: I will give a talk on "Anti-pied-piping and focus marking mis-matches in Kasem (Gur/Mabia)" at the Workshop on Tracing Mismatches: Deviations from One-to-one Patterns to be held during the 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), University of Trier, Germany.