Research Assistant and Assistant Director: Tajudeen Mamadou Yacoubou
Tajudeen Mamadou Yacoubou is a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. She is appointed as a research assistant for Fall 2020-Spring 2021. He will oversee the data entry policing, the day to day administration of the website, as well as being the co-consultant on the Baatonum case file. His research interests include interactions between tone and intonation in African languages.
For more information about Tajudeen Mamadou Yacoubou, see his website.
Associate Director for Afroasiatic Languages: Ruth Kramer
Ruth Kramer received her Ph.D. in Linguistics From the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2009 and is an associate professor at the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University, as well as an Adjunct Researcher at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland. Her research interests are in theoretical syntax and morphology, particularly agreement, definite marking, and number and gender within nominal phrases. For more information about Ruth Kramer, please see her website.
Former Research Assistants
Hazel Mitchley - 2019-2020 - is a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. She oversaw the data entry, conducted data policing, and was responsible for the day to day administration of the website. Her research interests include argument structure and the verbal spine. For more information about Hazel Mitchley, see her website
Augustina Owusu - 2017-2019 - was a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. She oversaw the data entry policing, as well as the day to day administration of the website. Her research interests include tense and aspect in Akan syntax. For more information on Augustina Owusu, see her website.
Kunio Kinjo - 2016-2017- is a graduate student in the department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. He was in charge of data entry management, the management of several cases and is overseeing new and current features for the website. His research interests the morpho)syntax of Japanese and the semantics of contrastive topic. For more information, see his website.
Ümit Atlamaz - 2015 - 2016 - was a graduate student in the department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. He was in charge of data entry management, the management of several cases and current features for the website. His research interests include agreement, case and focused questions. For more information, see his website.
Vandana Bajaj - Spring 2014 - was a graduate student in the department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. She took over in Spring 2014 and was in charge of data entry management, the management of several cases and the management of new and current features for the website. Her research interests include focus, the semantics-pragmatics interface, and experimental methods.
Naga Selvanathan - 2012-2013 - was a graduate student in the department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. He was in charge of data entry management, the management of several cases and is overseeing new and current features for the website. His research interests include syntax and the syntax-semantics interface.
Matthew Barros - 2011-2012 - was a graduate student in the department of Linguistics at Rutgers University. He was in charge of data entry management from 2011 - 2012. He had taken over the management of several cases and oversaw new and current features for the website. His research interests include syntax and the syntax-semantics interface. For more information, please see his website.
Jeremy Perkins - 2010-2011 - Jeremy is an associate professor at the department of linguistics at the University of Aizu. He was in charge of data entry management and took over the management of several cases and new and current features for the website. His research interests include phonology and phonetics, and in particular, consonant-tone interaction.
Carlo Linares-Scarcerieau - 2008-2010 - See description above.
Michael O’Keefe - 2007-2008 - Michael was a graduate student in the department of linguistics at Rutgers University. He made important contributions to the transition between the old and new websites, developed our glossing standards and procedures for database entry, and managed several cases, particularly Ibibio. His primary research interests have been in phonology, specifically tone, stress, and learnability, and in syntax, specifically reciprocals and anaphora. For more information, please visit his website.
Sarah E. Murray - 2006-2007 - Sarah is an assistant professor in the Linguistics Department at Cornell University and is a former graduate student at Rutgers University. In addition to her role as a research assistant, she made important contributions to the development of the new database and website and continues in an advisory role. Her primary research interests are in formal semantics, focusing on evidentials, the many varieties of anaphora (modal, temporal, in discourse, etc.), and fieldwork (Cheyenne). For more information, please visit her website .
Jessica Rett - 2005-2006 - After getting her Ph.D.in linguistics from Rutgers University in 2008, Jessica became an assistant professor at UCLA. For more information, please visit her website .
Oluseye Adesola - 2004-2005 - Oluseye remains an active member of the project as associate director (as above)
Current Data Entry Specialists
Indira Das, graduate student at Rutgers University
Eileen Blum, graduate student at Rutgers University
Current and Former Native Speaker Linguist Consultants*
Enoch Aboh, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Oluseye Adesola, Yale University (USA)
Derib Ado, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
Pius Akumbu, University of Buea (Cameroon)
Michael Terhemen Angitso, University of Hamburg (Germany)
Rose Aziza, Delta State University (Nigeria)
Degif Petros Banksira, Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada)
Mamadou Bassene, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar (Senegal)
Paul Roger Bassong, University of Yaounde 1 (Cameroon)
Théodore Bebey, University of Maroua (Cameroon)
Edmond Biloa, University of Yaounde 1 (Cameroon)
Oumarou Boukari, University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Obed Broohm, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana)
Akua Campbell, University of Ghana (Ghana)
Gabriel Djomeni, University of Dschang (Cameroon)
Noureddine Elouazizi, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Keffyalew Gebregziabher, University of Calgary (Canada)
Alex Iwara, University of Ibadan (Nigeria)
Lwagoshi Jacques Kayigema, Adventist University of Central Africa (Rwanda)
Angela Kioko, United States International University (Kenya)
Lynn Kisembe, no current affiliation information
Nancy Kula, University of Essex (United Kingdom)
David Langa, Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique)
Rose Letsholo, University of Botswana (Botswana)
Tajudeen Mamadou Yacoubou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)
Loyiso Mletshe, Unviersity of the Western Cape (South Africa)
Kizitus Mpoche, University of Douala (Cameroon)
Philip Ngessimo Mutaka, University of Yaounde 1 (Cameroon)
Juvenal Ndayiragije, University of Toronto (Canada)
Lengson Ngwasi, University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
Ibirahim Njoya, University of Yaounde 1 (Cameroon)
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo, Dilla University (Ethiopia)
Christophe Onambélé Manga, no current affiliation information
Cyrille Ondoua Engon, no current affiliation information
Augustina Owusu, Boston College (USA)
Justine Sikuku, Moi University (Kenya)
Ron Sylvester Simango, Rhodes University (South Africa)
Pius Tamanji, deceased
Francis Ndi Wepngong, Leiden Univesity alumnus (Netherlands)
Willie Udo Willie, currently unaffiliated
Tamam Ahmed Youssouf, no current affiliation information
*We only include here those who have completed an AQ response or who have sent us large enough portion of the AQ response to permit follow-up work to begin. There are many other consultants currently involved in the project whose names will be added when they pass that threshold.
