Cambridge Scholars Publishing Current Research in African Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Ọladele Awobuluyi

Current Research in African Linguistics recognizes and honors Ọladele Awobuluyi’s contributions to African linguistics. The contributors, an international group of scholars, represent four generations of African linguists who have been influenced by Awobuluyi’s work as a scholar and teacher. The papers are organized into three thematic sections, namely applied linguistics and sociolinguistics; phonology and morphology; and syntax and semantics and their interfaces. The wide range of topics investigated in this volume will enhance the reader’s understanding of current issues in the field of African linguistics today. Indeed, the book marks an important contribution to the expanding work on language documentation and comparative linguistics by presenting data and linguistic analysis from a number of different African languages. Review Syntactic Structures of the World's Languages", a collaborative online resource for linguists managed by scholars at the University of California, Los Angeles and New York University. Lendzemo Constantine Yuka is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages at the University of Benin, where he has been teaching Syntax and Morphology for the past seventeen years. He has published widely on language planning, language acquisition and the grammar of Lamnso'. He is currently compiling a Lamnso/English Dictionary, and is Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Linguistics Studies, Assistant Editor of the Nigerian Journal of the Humanities and the Journal of the Linguistics Association of Nigeria, and Secretary-Treasurer of the West African Linguistics Society." About the Author Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Linguistics Program at Tulane University. Since publishing her dissertation (Benue-Congo prosodic Phonology and Morphology in Optimality Theory, 1997), her field of specialization has been the phonology and morphology of Benue-Congo languages. In addition, for the past several years, she has been documenting language loss in postlingual deafness contexts and comparing the observed patterns to language acquisition patterns in children. Her most recent publications include Acquisition Reversal: the Effects of Postlingual Deafness in Yoruba (2012) and Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics – Linguistic Interfaces in African Languages (2013). Johnson Fọlọrunṣọ Ilọri is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics, African and Asian Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria. His research focuses on the syntax, morphology, and semantics of the Yoruboid languages subgroup of Benue-Congo, especially Yoruba and Igala. He has authored a number of journal articles and books chapters in addition to a book, A Minimalist Syntax of Nominal Constructions in Igálà and Yorùbá (2011), based on selected portions of his doctoral dissertation. He is currently working with a team of linguists and lexicographers on a new English-Yoruba-English bilingual dictionary, and is a contributor on Yoruba and Igala to “Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages”, a collaborative online resource for Linguists managed by scholars at the University of California Los Angeles and New York University. Lendzemo Constantine Yuka is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages at the University of Benin, where he has been teaching Syntax and Morphology for the past seventeen years. He has published widely on language planning, language acquisition and the grammar of Lamnso’. He is currently compiling a Lamnsoꞌ/English Dictionary, and is Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Linguistics Studies, Assistant Editor of the Nigerian Journal of the Humanities and the Journal of the Linguistics Association of Nigeria, and Secretary-Treasurer of the West African Linguistics Society.