Dr. Yiwola Awoyale

awoyale@ldc.upenn.edut

Title:  Lecturer

Courses:

Personal Information
Yiwola Awoyale is from Nigeria.

Education

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.

Research interest and Publications
Computational lexicography, syntactic theory of language, ideophones, and verb serialization

Works at the Linguistic Data Consortium, UPENN, on an electronic multilingual dictionary of Yoruba-English-English-Yoruba, Gullah-English-Yoruba;Lukumi-Spanish-English-Yoruba; TrinidadYoruba-English-Yoruba; Anago-Portuguese-English-Yoruba
dictionary of Yoruba ideophones

Affiliations
Member, Dictionary Society of North America; Member, Linguistic Association of Nigeria
Member, West African Linguistic Association
Member, Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria