Prof. Johnson Folorunso Ilọri

Selected Recent Publications / Contributions to Knowledge

1. Ilori, J. F. (2023). ‘The Semantics of Yoruba Presupposition Triggers’. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, Volume 20, no. 2, 141-162 http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL53/07.pdf. ISSN 1336-782.
2. Kazuko Yatsushiro, Chiara Dal Farra, Aurore Gonzalez, Johannes Hein, Silvia Silleresi, Alicia Avellana, Aijun Huang, Johnson F. Ilori, Gayathri G. Krishnan, Lilla Pintér, Maria Teresa Guasti, Uli Sauerland (2022). “Children’s Wh-Questions across Languages: Some Preliminary Results”, Ying Gong and Felix Kpogo (ed.) Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) Volume 2, 890-903, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. http://www.cascadilla.com/bucld46toc.html
3. Ilori, J. F. & J. Onuora (2021). ’A Syntactic Reappraisal of Polar Question Constructions in Igbo’. Journal of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (JOLAN) 24, 2, 37-60. http://www.jolan.org.ng
4. Ilori, J. F. & O. Are 2021. A Morpho-Semantic Study of Okun Names: Implications for Okun Linguistic Identity. UNILAG Journal of Humanities Volume 9 No. 2, 1-23.
5. Ilori, J. F. (2017). ‘Interrogative Projections in Yoruboid Languages’. Journal of West African Languages 44 Issue 1, pages 1-21. Official Publication of the West African Linguistic Society (WALS). University of Vienna, Austria https://main.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/index.php/downloads/category/128-Volume-44-number-1

Collaborations / Networks

• Prof. Dr. Uli Sauerland, Centre for General Linguistics, ZAS, Berlin, Germany
• Prof. Maria Teresa Guasti, Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
• Prof. Dr. Enoch Oláde Aboh, Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Prof. Lendzemo Constatine Yuka, Department of Linguistics, University of Benin, Nigeria
• Prof. Olusola Are, Department of English, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria