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Enoch Aboh (Introduction to Linguistics) is a researcher at the University of
Amsterdam with appointments in the Department of Linguistics
and the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication.
His research interests include the (micro)comparative syntax
of Kwa languages and the Atlantic creoles, in parallel with
the (macro)comparative syntax of Kwa, Germanic, and
Romance. These research interests feed his other passions,
which are language creation and language change. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland
in 1998. Since then, he taught courses in syntax, African
linguistics, Creole, and English at the University of Geneva
(until 2001) and the University of Amsterdam, where he
began work as a post-doc in April 2001. Until October 2003,
he was involved in the University of Amsterdam and University
of Leiden joint project "A trans-Atlantic sprachbund? The
structural relationship between the Gbe-languages of West
Africa and the Suriname Creole languages," which aimed to
identify and account for potential structural relationships
between the Surinamese Creoles and the Gbe languages (Kwa).
Since November 2003, he has been leading a research
program entitled "The typology of focus and topic: A new
approach to the discourse-syntax interface." This program
investigates the nature of the interface between discourse
pragmatics and syntax by studying how focus and topic
interact with clause structure and how syntactic rules that
drive clause structure and discourse/pragmatic properties
interact. It also looks at the study of the peripheries
(i.e., D, C, V) cross-linguistically. Selected publications
include The Morphosyntax of Complement-head Sequences:
Clause Structure and Word Order Patterns in Kwa. Oxford
Studies in Comparative Syntax (Oxford University Press);
Left or Right? A view from the Kwa Peripheral Positions,
in Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and their Effects (Kluwer);
and Object Shift, Verb Movement and Verb Reduplication,
in Handbook of Syntax (Oxford University Press).
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