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Upcoming Talks or Posters​​​​​​​​

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  • 30/01/2025: [with Emmanuel Apebuga] Quirks of Bi-clausal structures in Kasem. 33rd Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE33), University of Göttingen. [talk]

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  • 11/04/2025: tba. Invited talk at Yale Syntax Reading Group

​Talks and Posters

  2024

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  • 15/11/2024: On the left periphery and (non-)subject positions in Mabia languages. Invited talk at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlin

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  • 27/08/2024: The nature of FOFC and ex-situ focus in Ikale. 53rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL 53), Leiden University. [talk]

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  • 15/08/2024: Form-meaning mismatches and focus sensitivity in Kusaal. Poster session at the DGfS Summer School 2024: Form-Meaning Mismatches in Spoken and Visual Communication, University of Göttingen. [poster]

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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 ÌkálèÌ£ 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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Publications & Proceedings

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  • Aremu, Daniel. (to appear). "Towards a Proposition Approach for Exclusives in Kasem". Submitted to the Proceedings of 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL42), Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [available on Lingbuzz: comments are welcome!].

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  • Aremu, Daniel and Weisser, Philipp (2024). "Prosodically determined coordinator placement in Yorùbá".  Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). [paper]

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  • Aremu,  Daniel (2024). "Topic and focus asymmetries in Yorùbá". In Anke Himmelreich, Daniel Hole and Johannes Mursell (Eds.), To the left, to the right, and much in between: A Festschrift for Katharina Hartmann (pp. 185-204). Frankfurt: Goethe University Frankfurt. [paper]​​​

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  • Aremu, Daniel. (to appear). "Focus and the association with focus sensitive particle 'yerane' in Kasem". Submitted to the Proceedings of the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, (ACAL54) [under revision].

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  • Aremu, Daniel. (to appear). "The syntax of focus in ÌkálèÌ£". Accepted for the Proceedings of the Cross-disciplinary Workshop on Information Structure in African Languages, African Linguistic School (ALS6). [paper, comments are welcome!]

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In preparation

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  • Focus marking in ÌkálèÌ£ and the Final-Over-Final Condition. To appear in the Proceeding of Constraining Linearization (ConLin) workshop, a part of the Annual meeting of the German Linguistics Society (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft-DGfS_AG8 2024) [draft submitted, comments are welcome!].​

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  • Morphosyntactic evidence for Aboutness and Contrastive Topics: the case of Likpakpaanl.  [with Samuel Acheampong]

Monographs

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  • Aremu, Daniel (2021). Focus realization in Ikale and Akure: A microvariation approach. Unpublished MA thesis, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt.​

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