I am a second-year PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. My research focuses on the syntax and semantics of West African languages, with a particular interest in the morphosyntax of bare nominals and their (in)definite interpretations. Currently, I work primarily on Yorùbá, Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin (Naija).

2025

Ongoing

• Definiteness and the Yorùbá Bare Noun
• The Semantics of kan in Yorùbá: Indefinite or Specificity?

What’s New?

• Backward Association of Exclusive Particles and Scope Freezing (with Ka Fai Yip & Daniel Aremu)
• Are Splitting Verbs in Yorùbá Discontinuous Heads? (with Ka Fai Yip)

2024

• On the Syntax of Yorùbá Splitting Verb Constructions (Accepted for publication)
• A Quantifier-Particle Approach to Exclusive Focus Particles in Yorùbá with Ka Fai Yip handout