​Talks and Posters

 

    2026​​​

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• 02/06/2026: Association with Focus Sensitive Particles in Mabia and Yoruboid. Invited talk, Morpho-Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, University of Potsdam.

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• 23/05/2026: Revisiting exclusive association with focus in Yorùbá: Towards an Operator-Particle Approach. The 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57), University of Buffalo [handout]

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• 22/05/2026: (Pseudo)-sluicing in Likpakpaanl and the Isomorphic condition. 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57), University of Buffalo [with Samuel Acheampong]

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• 22/05/2026: Comparing the properties of Gapping in Yorùbá and English. Salzburg Comparative Syntax Workshop (SalCoS), Universität Salzburg. [with Philipp Weisser]

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• 20/04/2026: Gapping in Yorùbá and why it licenses non-canonical word order. GLOW48 Syntax Workshop, Florence. [with Philipp Weisser]

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• 19/03/2026: Mismatches between syntax and information structure: towards an analysis for morphosyntactic focus languages, Kasem as a case study. Young Africanists’ Research Network (YARN) inaugural workshop, University of Göttingen. [slides]

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• 25/02/2026: Anti-pied-piping and focus marking mismatches in Kasem (Gur/Mabia). Workshop on Tracing Mismatches: Deviations from One-to-one Patterns at the 48th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), University of Trier, Germany. [slides]

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• 12/02/2026: Locality and restricted A'-probing: evidence from non-ergative (Mabia and Kwa) languages 51st Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG51), University of Udine.

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    2025​

 

• 07/11/2025: Towards an Operator-Particle Approach to exclusive association with focus in Yorùbá. Invited talk at the Syntax & Semantics Circle, UC Berkeley.

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• 30/10/2025: Focus association and Cross-clausal dependencies in Yorùbá. Workshop on Cross-Clausal Dependencies (CCD), Bielefeld University, Germany.

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• 15-17/05/2025: Polar interrogatives in Kuce: a main clause phenomenon with a lax question prosody and clause-finality. The 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 56), University of Minnesota. (with Chinedu Anyanwu) [talk]

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• 25/04/2025: Quirks of progressive clauses in Kasem. The 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL43), University of Washington, Seattle. [slides]

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• 11/04/2025:  Locality and restricted A'-probing among the Mabia languages. Invited talk at Yale Syntax Reading Group

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• 26/03/2025: Backward association of exclusive particles and scope freezing. 47th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW 47), Goethe University, Frankfurt. (with Ka-Fai Yip and Bode Adedeji) [talk]

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• 03/03/2025: An Operator-particle approach with a distributed syntax for exclusives in Yorùbá. Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Scalarity (SYSSI), Universität Stuttgart, Germany. [talk]

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

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​    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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• 18/06/2024: Focus marking and interpretation in Kasem. One day colloquium on 'Syntactic Cartography and African Languages', Collège de France, Paris. [invited talk]

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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: 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. (with Samuel Acheampong) [talk]

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    2023​​​

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• 22/09/2023: Aboutness and Contrastive Topics in Likpakpaanl. Topic, Focus and Subject (TFS) Conference, University of Osnabrück. (with Samuel Acheampong) [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: More is going on upstairs than downstairs: There is a Penthouse in Kuce. Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL28), California State University, Fresno. (with Chinedu Anyanwu) [talk]

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

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• 22-24/09/2022: Mono-clausal and Bi-clausal Topics in Likpakpaanl. Conference on Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis (SinFonIJA 15), University of Udine, Italy. (with Samuel Acheampong) [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: On the absence of Superiority and Crossover in Eton. Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL27), California State University, Fresno. (with Haniel Enoka) [talk]

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

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