Publications and Talks

Recent

July 18-30, 2022. I taught Introduction to Minimalist Syntax at 6th the African Linguistics School in Porto-Novo, Benin.

October 13, 2021: I gave a guest class at the Department of Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies entitled The definite determiner and noun classes in Bùlì.

October 6, 2021: I gave a talk at the Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana entitled On temporal remoteness markers in Bùlì.

Publications

Sulemana, A-R. (2022). Temporal Remoteness Markers in Bùlì. Journal of West African Languages 49(1):24-46.

Sulemana, A-R (2022). Obligatory Controlled Subjects in Bùlì. In Galen
Sibanda, Deo Ngonyani, Jonathan Choti & Ann Biersteker (eds.), Descriptive and theoretical approaches to African linguistics: Selected papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 189–203. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6393754

Sulemana, A-R. (2020) The Definite Morpheme in Bùlì. In Bodomo, A., and Abubakari, H., and Issah S.A., (eds.) Handbook of the Mabia Languages of West Africa, 135-167. Galda Verlag.

Sulemana, A-R. (2019). Q-particles and the nature of covert movement: Evidence from Bùlì. Glossa 4(1): 99. 1–21. DOI :https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.810

Sulemana, A-R. (2019). PRO as a partial copy: A movement based account of control. Ronai, E., and Stigliano, L., and Sun, Y. (Eds.). Proceedings of the fifty-fourth Annual meeting of the Chicago Linguitic Society , 493-502.CLS.

Branan, K. and Sulemana, A-R. (2019). In Bùlì, covert movement licenses parasitic gaps. Stockwell, R., and O’Leary, M., and Xu, Z., and Zhou, Z.I (Eds.) Proceedings of the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics , 81-90. Cascadilla Proceeding Project, Somerville, MA.

Theses

Ph.D in Linguistics. Thesis: Non-finite Complementation: A case study of Bùlì

Mphil in Linguistics, Thesis: The Structure of the Determiner Phrase in Buli.

Manuscripts

Sulemana, A-R. (Under review) Tone and Clause structure.

Sulemana, A-R. (Under review) Reduced Complements.

Sulemana, A-R. (2017). Tonal Processes and Opacity in Buli. Ms., MIT

Sulemana, A-R. (2016). Deceptive Overt wh-movement in Buli. Ms., MIT

Presentations

2018 PRO as a Partial Copy: A movement based account of Control . Presentation at CLS54, The University of Chicago, Illinois.

2018 Obligatory Controlled Subjects in Buli. Presentation at the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Michigan State University, Michigan.

2018  (with Kenyon Branan). Covert movement licenses parasitic gaps . Poster presentation at GLOW41, Budapest, Hungary.

2018  (with Kenyon Branan). In Bùlì, covert movement licenses parasitic gaps . Presentation at proceedings at WCCFL 36, UCLA, California.

2017 The Existential Construction in Buli. Presentation at the Mabia Conference at the University of Vienna, Austria.

2017 The Definite Morpheme in Buli. Presentation at the 30th West African Languages Congress and 10th Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) Conference, University of education, Winneba, Ghana.

2017 Tonal Processes and Opacity in Buli . Presentation at the 30th West African Languages Congress and 10th Linguistics Association of Ghana (LAG) Conference, University of education, Winneba, Ghana.

2016  GETCASE is Violable: Evidence for Wholesale Late Merger. Presentation at the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington.

2016  Q-particles and the nature of Covert movement: evidence from Buli. Poster presentation at GLOW40, Leiden University, Netherlands.

2016 Q-particles and the nature of Covert movement: evidence from Buli . Syntax Brown Bag, NYU.

2013 Internal Structure of the Determiner Phrase in Buli . Presentation at the 11th Faculty of Arts Colloquium, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra.