Current Research in African Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Ọladele Awobuluyi

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.