ADENIYI Kolawole

Reader (Associate Professor)

Email address: kola.adeniyi@oauife.edu.ng & kola.adeniyi@gmail.com

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6409-9690

Office: Room 304, African Studies Building

Academic Qualifications: B.A., M.A., PhD. (Ibadan)

Title of M.A. Thesis: The Typology of Three-Tone Systems: Ebira, Ghotuo, Yala (Ikom), and Yoruba

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Downstep in Three-tone Systems of West Benue-Congo Languages

Scholarships:

Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship Award for undergraduates, 2002

DAAD Scholarship, 2013

DAAD Re-invitation Programme for Former Scholarship Holders, 2019

DAAD Re-invitation Programme for Former Scholarship Holders, 2024

Research Grants:

Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) Conference Attendance, 2011

Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) Conference Attendance, 2024

List of Publications of Dr Kolawole Adeniyi

Thesis/Dissertation:

(i) Adeniyi, K. (2009). The Typology of Three-Tone Systems: Ebira, Ghotuo, Yala (Ikom), and Yoruba. M.A. Project, Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, 102 pages. Unpublished.

(ii) Adeniyi, K. (2015). Downstep in Three-tone Systems of West Benue-Congo Languages. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Ibadan, 246 Pages. Unpublished.

Edited Books

Daramola, O. M. A., Adeniyi, K., Babalola, E. T., and Ademilokun, M. (2020): Migration: Identity Construction and Reconstruction. Ile-Ife: Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University.
Daramola, A., Olaosun, I., and Adeniyi, K. (2021): Humanities and Media Representations of Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria. Ile-Ife: Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University.

Contributions to Books:

(iii) Adeniyi, K. (2013). “On the Status of the Downstep in Yoruba.” In: O-M Ndimele, M. Ahmad and H. M. Yakasai (Eds), Language, Literature & Culture in a Multilingual Society – A Festschrift for Abubakar Rasheed. Port Harcourt: Linguistic Association of Nigeria & Emhai press, 787–802.

(iv) *Adeniyi, K. and Talabi, O. O. (2020). “The Evolution of Word-initial Nasalized Vowels in Igasi.” In: E-A. Urua, F. Egbokhare, O. Adesola and H. Adeniyi (Eds), African Languages in Time and Space: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Akinbiyi Akinlabi. Ibadan: Zenith Book House, 104–112.

Journal Articles:

(v) Taiwo, O. and Adeniyi, K. (2011). “Emergence of Non-conforming Syllables in Yoruba.” Ago-Iwoye Journal of Language and Literary Studies 2: 111-120.

(vi) Adeniyi, K. (2015). “Notes on Yoruba Child Phonology.” Papers in English and Linguistics 16 (2):1-16.

(vii) Adeniyi, K. (2015). “Hybrid Sounds in Yoruba.” Ihafa: A Journal of African Studies 7(1): 1-20.

(viii) Adeniyi, K. (2016). “Consonant-tone Interaction in Nupe.” Afrika und Übersee 92: 237-260.

(ix) Adeniyi, K. (2016). “Downstep in Igala and Yala (Ikom).” Journal of West African Languages 43 (1): 1- 21.

(x) Adeniyi, K. (2016). “An Outline of Igasi Tone System.” Ihafa: A Journal of African Studies 8 (2): 17-35.

(xi) Jayeola, W. A. and Adeniyi, K. (2016). “Issues in Children’s Semantic Acquisition. Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures 2 (1): 54-66.

(xii) Adeniyi, K. (2017). “The Limits of Perception in the Tonal Orthographies of Three-tone Systems.” Linguistik Online 84 (5): 3-22.

(xiii) Adeniyi, K. and Adeniyi, T. (2017). “Consonant Sequence Reduction in Child Phonology.” Ghana Journal of Linguistics 6 (1): 22-48.

(xiv) Adeniyi, K. and Bamigbade, O.E. (2017). “Customized Ibadan-Yoruba.” Linguistik Online 80 (1): 3-20.

(xv) Adeniyi, K. (2018). “High Tone Lowering in Igbomina-Yoruba.” JOLAN: Journal of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria, Supplement III: 221-231.

(xvi) Adeniyi, K. (2018). “Òun, ohun, ohùn: An Experimental Study of /h/ in Yoruba.” Nordic Journal of African Studies 27 (4): 1-17.

(xvii) Adeniyi, K. and Elugbe, B. (2018). “Consonant Voicing, Tonal Morphemes, and Downstep in Gwari.” Linguistique et Langues Africaines 4: 77-97.

(xviii) Adeniyi, K. (2020). “Lexicalization of Tonal Downstep in Yoruba.” Canadian Journal of Linguistics/ Revue Canadienne de Linguistique 65 (4): 535-555.

(xvix) Adeniyi, K. and Jayeola, W. A. (2020). “Tonal Alternation in Yoruba Numerals.” JOLAN: Journal of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria 23 (1): 181 – 190.

(xx) Adeniyi, K. and Olaogun, S. (2020). “Lexical Erosion in Yoruba.” Nordic Journal of African Studies 29 (3): 1-19.

(xxi) Adeniyi, K. (2021). “A Tonal Identification of Yoruba Dialects.” Dialectologia 27.1: 1 – 31.

(xxii) *Adeniyi, K. and Odoje, C. (2023). “Linguistics Theories, Nigerian Languages, and the Quest for Development.” Nigerian Languages’ Studies 7:28 – 36

(xxiii) *Obikudo E. F. Adeniyi K, Bolaji E, Mokoko C. E., Dindo P. J. N. and Fusheini A. (2024). A Phonetic Investigation of the Affricate-Rhotic Cluster in Wobé. Arusha Working Papers in African Linguistics 6.1: 3 – 16.

Conference Proceedings:

(xxiv) Adeniyi, K. (2012). “The Role of Discourse in the Typology of Downsteps: Evidence from Ebira and Ghotuo.” In: Botinis, A. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 5^th International Society of Experimental Linguistics (ISEL) Conference, 1- 4.

Articles Accepted for Publication:

(xxv) Adeniyi, K. and Bamigbade, O. E. Ewúro “Bitter Leaf”: Linguistic Identity Maintenance in Ife and Modakeke, Nigeria. Forthcoming in Dialectologia.

(xxvi) Adeniyi, K. “An Experimental study of vocal emotions in Yoruba.” Forthcoming in International Journal of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics.