ADEWOLE Lawrence Olufemi

Professor

Email address(es): loadewole@gmail.com loadewole@yahoo.com

Office Address: 315 African Studies Building, OAU, Ife

Academic Qualifications:

B.A. (Yoruba/History) Educ., OAU, Ife, 1980,

M.A. Linguistics, University of Sussex, 1985 and

PhD Linguistics, Edinburgh University, 1988

Areas of Specialization: Syntax and Yoruba Lexicography

Title of M.A. Thesis: Yoruba Relative Clause in GPSG

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: A Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar Analysis of the Yoruba Auxiliary Verbs

Scholarships:

Federal Government of Nigeria Scholar 1981-1982

Fellowships:

Leventis Scholar, School of Oriental and African Studies, London 1995 (2) Morse Fellow, Yale University, USA

Research Grants:

Various Grants on the Studies of Yoruba Place Names and Yoruba Crowned Oba

Ongoing Current Research:

Yoruba Lexicography

Publications:

Over 50 publications on Yoruba Linguistics

Staff Profile:

I became a Professor at OAU, Ife in 1998. I was Acting Head or Head of the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, OAU, Ife for seven years and Dean, Faculty of Arts, OAU, Ife for two years. I was a Visiting Scholar or a Visiting Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, Yale University, USA. University of Lagos and Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye.