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2025​
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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 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: 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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Publications & Proceedings
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Aremu, Daniel. (to appear). "Towards a Proposition Approach for Exclusives in Kasem". To appear in 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. (to appear). "Focus and the association with focus sensitive particle 'yerane' in Kasem". Accepted in Proceedings of the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, (ACAL54) Carstens, V., K. Russell, O. Akingbade, D. Morton, and M. Diercks, (Eds.), Berlin: Language Science Press. [paper: comments are welcome!].
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Aremu, Daniel. (to appear). "The syntax of focus in ÌkálèÌ£". Accepted in Crossdisciplinary approaches to Information Structure in Niger-Congo languages, Akinlabi, A., S. Korsah, S. Rose, and A.-R. Sulemana, (Eds.), Berlin: Language Science Press. [paper: 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. and Enoka, Haniel. (2022). "On the absence of Superiority and Crossover in Eton". In Proceedings of the 27th Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 27), California State University, Fresno. (pp.36-42)
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 [available on Lingbuzz: comments are welcome!].​
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Morphosyntactic evidence for Aboutness and Contrastive Topics: the case of Likpakpaanl. [with Samuel Acheampong]
Manuscripts
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Aremu, Daniel (2021). Focus realization in Ikale and Akure: A microvariation approach. Unpublished MA thesis, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt.​ [email for a copy]