Selected Conferences/ Seminars/Workshops

a.    Anaphora Project Development Workshop 3 (APDW3) held at Georgetown University, Washington DC, 13-14 December, 2019. Negation in Defoid Languages. https://bit.ly/2yrm8i2

b.    Annual Conference on African Linguistics 50 (ACAL 50) held at University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, 22nd – 25th May, 2019. Patterns of Negation Owé. https://bit.ly/3edVrwB

c.    Department of English, University of Ilorin 1st National Conference held at the University of Ilorin, 23rd – 26th April, 2018.

d.    Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory (PSST) held at University of Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, 6th – 7th April, 2018. https://bit.ly/2LTEhYV

e.    Annual Conference on African Linguistics 49 (ACAL 49) held at Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, 22nd – 25th March, 2018. Olukumi Language Documentation, Revitalization and Description (With Olamide Mabodu) https://bit.ly/2Zx0gwH

f.    Toyin Falola International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora (TOFAC) held at Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, 3rd-5th July, 2017. ‘The Effect of the Use of Native Language in Catholicism.’ (With Okoroafor, Elizabeth Ihuoma).

g.    18th Interim Conference of African Languages Association of Southern Africa, held at The Mandume Ndemufayo Street, Main Campus, University of Namibia, Windhoek, 29 of June-1st July, 2016. ‘Morpho-semantic Analysis of Indigenous Owé Personal Names.’ (With Josephine Alexander Ph.D)

h.    1st Joint International Conference of Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin and African Studies Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, USA held at the University of Ilorin, 21st-25th November, 2016. ‘The Meaning of Two in the early speech of Yoruba Children.’

i.    West African Languages Conference (WALC)  /Conference of the Linguistics Association of Nigeria (CLAN) held at Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria between 29th July to 2nd August, 2013. ‘Olùkùmi Revisited: a Language on the Verge of Extinction’.

j.    Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction International Congress held jointly at FIAP Jean Monnet and Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, Paris, France, 18th-21st September, 2012. ‘A Comparative Phonology of Olùkùmi, Igala, Owe and Yoruba Languages’. https://bit.ly/3giGJq3

k.    2nd International Proverb Conference in Nigeria held at University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, 12th-16th March, 2012.

l.    41st Annual Conference of African Linguistics (ACAL) held jointly at University of Toronto and York University, Toronto, Canada, 6th-8th May, 2010. ‘Acquisition of Overt Argument-NPs by Pre-school Yoruba-speaking Children’

m.    20th Conference of Linguistics Association of Nigeria held at NERDC, Abuja (November, 2006). ‘A Survey of the Phonology of the Okun Dialects’

n.    Congress on Child Language and Communication Disorder (CCLCD) held at the University of Port Harcourt, 2nd-4th May, 2006.  ‘Stages in the Acquisition of Syntax of Yoruba Language’

o.    West African Languages Congress held at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan (1st -6th August, 2004): ‘Emphatic-Case Assignment in Focus Constructions: Evidence from Owé.’