Prof. Dr. Kofi Yakpo

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsGeneral and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,African Studies
KeywordsAfrican languages and linguistics, Language contact, Creoles, Areal typology, Language description

Current contact address

CountryPeople's Republic of China
CityHong Kong
InstitutionUniversity of Hong Kong
InstituteSchool of Humanities

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Tom GüldemannInstitut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2020

Program(s)

2019Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2021Yakpo, Kofi: Creole prosodic systems are areal, not simple. In: Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 2021, 690593
2021Yakpo, Kofi: Social entrenchment influences the amount of areal borrowing in contact languages. In: International Journal of Bilingualism, 2021, 1-23
2021Yakpo, Kofi: Two types of language contact involving English Creoles: Why Krio (Sierra Leone) has evolved more towards English than its relative Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) towards Spanish. In: English Today, 2021, 1-12
2021Yakpo, Kofi: Unidirectional multilingual convergence: Typological and social factors. In: International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021, 1-18
2021Bisilki, Abraham Kwesi and Yakpo, Kofi: ‘The heart has caught me’: Anger metaphors in Likpakpaln (Konkomba). In: Sociolinguistic Studies, 15, 2021, 65-89
2020Bisilki, Abraham Kwesi and Yakpo, Kofi: Adjectives in Likpakpaln (Konkomba): Structural and areal-typological aspects. In: Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa, 51, 2020, 3-24
2020Bordal Steien, Guri and Yakpo, Kofi: Romancing with tone: On the outcomes of prosodic contact. In: Language, 96, 2020, 1-41
2020Yakpo, Kofi: Social factors. In: Adamou, Evangelia and Matras, Yaron, The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact. Routledge, 2020. 129-146
2020Yakpo, Kofi: Sociolinguistic characteristics of the English-lexifier contact languages of West Africa. In: Smith, Norval and Veenstra, Tonjes and Aboh, Enoch Oladé, Advances in contact linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken. John Benjamins, 2020. 61-84
2020Yakpo, Kofi and Smith, Norval: The Atlantic. In: Ansaldo, Umberto and Meyerhoff, Miriam, The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Routledge, 2020. 179-198
2019Yakpo, Kofi: A grammar of Pichi. Language Science Press, 2019
2019Yakpo, Kofi: Inheritance, contact, convergence: Pronominal allomorphy in the African English-lexifier Creoles. In: English World-Wide, 40, 2019, 201-225
2019Kwok, Veronica P.Y. and Matthews, Stephen and Yakpo, Kofi and Tan, Li Hai: Neural correlates and functional connectivity of lexical tone processing in reading. In: Brain and Language, 196, 2019, 104662
2019Yakpo, Kofi: On Pichi (Equatorial Guinea): Sociolinguistic, typological and contact-related aspects. International Naija Symposium: A reader. IFRA Nigeria, 2019. 54-64
2019Yakpo, Kofi: Review of Cameroon Pidgin English: A comprehensive grammar, by Miriam Ayafor and Melanie J. Green. In: Language, 95, 2019, 562-565
2018Yakpo, Kofi: Negation in Pichi (Equatorial Guinea): The case for areal convergence. In: Déprez, Viviane and Henri, Fabiola, Negation and negative concord: The view from Creoles. John Benjamins, 2018. 105-125
2018Yakpo, Kofi: ¿El nacimiento de una lengua afrohispana?: La influencia del español en el idioma criollo inglés de Guinea Ecuatorial. In: Odartey-Wellington, Dorothy, África y el Afro-hispanismo: Confluencias trans- e intra-continentales en las expresiones culturales hispánicas y africanas. Brill Rodopi, 2018. 243-259
2017Kwok, Veronica P. Y. and Dan, Guo and Yakpo, Kofi and Matthews, Stephen and Fox, Peter T. and Li, Ping and Tan, Li-Hai: A meta-analytic study of the neural systems for auditory processing of lexical tones. In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11:375, 2017,
2017Yakpo, Kofi and Muysken, Pieter: Boundaries and bridges: Language contact in multilingual ecologies. De Gruyter Mouton, 2017
2017Yakpo, Kofi: Creole in transition: Contact with Dutch and typological change in Sranan. In: Yakpo, Kofi and Muysken, Pieter, Boundaries and bridges: Language contact in multilingual ecologies. De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. 57-85
2017Yakpo, Kofi and Muysken, Pieter: Language contact and change in the multilingual ecologies of the Guianas. In: Yakpo, Kofi and Muysken, Pieter, Boundaries and bridges: Language contact in multilingual ecologies. De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. 3-19
2017Yakpo, Kofi and Muysken, Pieter: Multilingual ecologies in the Guianas: Overview, typology, prospects. In: Yakpo, Kofi and Muysken, Pieter, Boundaries and bridges: Language contact in multilingual ecologies. De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. 383-403
2017Yakpo, Kofi: Out of India: Language contact and change in Caribbean Hindustani. In: Yakpo, Kofi and Muysken, Pieter, Boundaries and bridges: Language contact in multilingual ecologies. De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. 129-149
2017Borges, Robert and Muysken, Pieter and Villerius, Sophie and Yakpo, Kofi: The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname. In: Yakpo, Kofi and Muysken, Pieter, Boundaries and bridges: Language contact in multilingual ecologies. De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. 311-361
2017Yakpo, Kofi: Towards a model of language contact and change in the English-lexifier creoles of Africa and the Caribbean. In: English World-Wide, 38, 2017, 50-76
2017Yakpo, Kofi: Unity in diversity: The homogeneity of the substrate and the grammar of space in the African and Caribbean English-lexifier Creoles. In: Cutler, Cecilia and Vrzic, Zvjezdana and Angermeyer, Philipp, Language contact in Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas. In honor of John V. Singler. John Benjamins, 2017. 225-250
2016Yakpo, Kofi: "The only language we speak really well". The English creoles of Equatorial Guinea and West Africa at the intersection of language ideologies and language policies. In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 239, 2016, 211-233
2016Yakpo, Kofi: Dictionnaire éwé-français, by Jacques Rongier. In: Linguistique et Langues Africaines (LLA), 2, 2016, 135-139
2016Yakpo, Kofi: Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context: Variation, Interaction and Ideology in Language Documentation, by Bettina Migge and Isabelle Léglise. In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 31, 2016, 467-472
2016Kwok, Veronica P.Y. and Dan, Guo and Yakpo, Kofi and Matthews, Stephen and Tan, Li Hai: Neural systems for auditory perception of lexical tones. In: Journal of Neurolinguistics, 37, 2016, 34-40
2016Yakpo, Kofi: O estatuto do pichi na Guiné Equatorial. In: PLATÔ (Revista Digital do Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa), 3, 2016, 20-40
2015Yakpo, Kofi: Code-switching and social change: Convergent language mixing in a multilingual society. In: Stell, Gerald and Yakpo, Kofi, Codeswitching between structural and sociolinguistic perspectives. De Gruyter, 2015. 259-287
2015Stell, Gerald and Yakpo, Kofi: Code-switching between structural and sociolinguistic perspectives. De Gruyter, 2015
2015Stell, Gerald and Yakpo, Kofi: Elusive or self-evident? Looking for common ground in approaches to code-switching. In: Stell, Gerald and yakpo, Kofi, Code-switching between structural and sociolinguistic perspectives. De Gruyter, 2015. 1-16
2015Kwok, Veronica P.Y. and Wang, Tianfu and Chen, Siping and Yakpo, Kofi and Zhu, Linlin and Fox, Peter T. and Tan, Li Hai: Neural signatures of lexical tone reading. In: Human Brain Mapping, 36, 2015, 304-312
2015Yakpo, Kofi and van den Berg, Margot and Borges, Robert: On the linguistic consequences of language contact in Suriname: The case of convergence. In: Carlin, Eithne and Léglise, Isabelle and Migge, Bettina and Tjon Sie Fat, Paul B., In and out of Suriname: Language, mobility and identity. Brill, 2015. 164-195
2015Yakpo, Kofi and Bruyn, Adrienne: Transatlantic patterns: The relexification of locative constructions in Sranan. In: Muysken, Pieter and Smith, Norval, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund. De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. 135-175
2014Yakpo, Kofi and Muysken, Pieter: Language change in a multiple contact setting: The case of Sarnami (Suriname). In: Buchstaller, Isabelle and Holmberg, Anders and Almoaily, Mohammad, Pidgins and Creoles beyond Africa-Europe encounters. John Benjamins, 2014. 101-140
2013Yakpo, Kofi: Pichi. In: Michaelis, Susanne and Maurer, Philippe and Haspelmath, Martin and Huber, Magnus, The survey of Pidgin and Creole language structures: English-based and Dutch-based languages. Oxford University Press, 2013. 194-205
2013Borges, Robert and Muysken, Pieter and Villerius, Sophie and Yakpo, Kofi: Tense, mood, and aspect in Suriname. In: Borges, Robert, The life of language: dynamics of language contact in Suriname. LOT, 2013. 115-162
2013Yakpo, Kofi: Wayward daughter: Language contact in the emergence of Pichi (Equatorial Guinea). In: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 34, 2013, 275-299
2012Yakpo, Kofi: Betwixt and between: Causatives in the English-lexicon creoles of West Africa and the Caribbean. In: Leino, Jaako and von Waldenfels, Ruprecht, Analytical causatives: from 'make' to 'laskma'. Lincom Europa, 2012. 9-39
2012Yakpo, Kofi: Reiteration in Pichi: Forms, functions and areal-typological perspectives. In: Aboh, Enoch A and Smith, Norval and Zribi-Hertz, The morphosyntax of reiteration in creole and non-creole languages. John Benjamins, 2012. 251-284
2010Yakpo, Kofi: Gramática del pichi. Ceiba Ediciones, 2010
2009Yakpo, Kofi: Complexity revisited: Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) and Spanish in contact. In: Faraclas, Nicholas G. and Klein, Thomas, Simplicity and complexity in creoles and pidgins. Battlebridge, 2009. 183-215