​Talks and Posters

  2024

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• 13/04/2024: Towards a propositional concord approach for exclusives in Kasem. The 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), University of California, Berkeley. (talk)

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• 16/03/2024: A tale of two ‘onlys' in Kasem. The 48th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC48), University of Pennsylvania. (talk)

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• 01/03/2024: Focus marking in Ìkálẹ̀ and the Final-over-Final Condition. Constraining Linearization (ConLin) workshop as part of the Annual meeting of the German Linguistics Society (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft-DGfS_AG8 2024), Ruhr-Universität, Bochum. (talk)

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• 19/01/2024: Exclusive (non-)scalar 'onlys' and agreement in Kasem. 32nd Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE32), Queen Mary University of London. (talk)

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• 19/01/2024: [with Samuel Acheampong] On the sluicing-COMP generalization in Mabia and Kwa. 32nd Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE32), Queen Mary University of London. (talk)

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    2023​​​

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• 22/09/2023: [with Samuel Acheampong] Aboutness and Contrastive Topics in Likpakpaanl. Topic, Focus and Subject (TFS) Conference, University of Osnabrück. (talk)

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• ​​20/09/2023: Topic and Focus asymmetry in Yoruba. Topic, Focus, and Subject (TFS) Conference, University of Osnabrück. (talk)

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• 16/07/2023: Focus sensitivity and the (Anti)symmetry theory of syntax in Mabia (Kusaal). Poster session at the 5th Crete Summer School of Linguistics, University of Crete. (poster)

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• ​​29-30/06/2023: Focus sensitivity and the (Anti)symmetry theory of syntax in Kusaal. Syntax and Semantics of African Languages (SASAL 3): The syntax at the vP edge in African languages, Goethe University Frankfurt. (talk)

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• 12-14/06/2023: The syntax of focus sensitive particle only in Kasem. The 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL54), University of Connecticut. (talk)

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    2022

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• 12-13/11/2022: [with Chinedu Anyanwu] More is going on upstairs than downstairs: There is a Penthouse in Kuce. Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL28), California State University, Fresno. (talk)

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• 20-21/10/2022: [with Samuel Acheampong] Aboutness and Contrastive Topics in Likpakpaanl. 18th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WoSSP18), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. (poster)

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• 22-24/09/2022: [with Samuel Acheampong] Mono-clausal and Bi-clausal Topics in Likpakpaanl. Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 15), University of Udine, Italy. (poster)

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• 28-30/07/2022: Focus in Ikale and Akure. Cross-disciplinary Workshop on Information Structure in African Languages, African Linguistic School (ALS6), Porto Novo, Benin. (talk)

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• 23-25/02/2022: Subject and Non-subject wh-questions asymmetry in Akure. Syntax and Semantics of African Languages (SASAL 1) as part of the Annual meeting of the German Linguistics Society (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft-DGfS 2022), Universität Tübingen. (talk)

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    2021

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• 13-14/11/2021: [with Haniel Enoka] On the absence of Superiority and Crossover in Eton. Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL27), California State University, Fresno. (talk)

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• 7-12/06/2021: [with Frank Kügler] On the suspension of downstep: the case of Yoruba polar question intonation. World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL10), Leiden University. (talk)

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