Yiwola Awoyale
Official Title:
Lecturer Yiwola Awoyale is from Nigeria.
Experience:
- Was Professor and the head of the Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
- Has been teaching Linguistics, Yoruba language, and various aspects of African linguistics at the university level since 1975
Email:
awoyale@ldc.upenn.edu
Education:
- Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1974)
Research Interests:
Computational lexicography, syntactic theory of language, ideophones, and verb serialization
Selected Publications:
- Works at the Linguistic Data Consortium, UPENN, on an electronic multilingual dictionary of Yoruba-English-English-Yoruba; Gullah-English-Yoruba; Lukumi-Spanish-English-Yoruba; Trinidad-Yoruba-English-Yoruba; Anago-Portuguese-English-Yoruba dictionary of Yoruba ideophones
Courses Taught:
- AFST/AFAM 170 680 Elementary Yoruba
- AFST/AFAM 271 680 Intermediate Yoruba
Other Affiliations:
- Member, Dictionary Society of North America; Member, Linguistic Association of Nigeria
- Member, West African Linguistic Association
- Member, Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria