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I am a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main.

I investigate association with focus phenomenon in Mabia (Kasem and Kusaal) and Yoruboid (Yoruba) languages, with a direct focus on the conventional focus-sensitive operators (only, also, and even). My research investigates the syntax-semantic properties of these focus-sensitive operators in the three West African languages, as well as their relationship with the morphosyntactic focus marking patterns present in these languages.

More generally, I'm interested in syntactic theories, syntax-semantics interface, focus, focus sensitivity, islandhood, resumption, and morpho-syntax, among others, in West African languages.

I conduct my research as part of the DFG-funded project on the "VP-periphery of the Mabia languages," spoken in Ghana (PI: Prof. Katharina Hartmann).