Prof. Dr. Kofi Yakpo

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-2 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAllgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaften, Typologie, Außereuropäische Sprachen,Afrikanistik
KeywordsAfrican languages and linguistics, Language contact, Creoles, Areal typology, Language description

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandChina, VR
OrtHong Kong
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Hong Kong
Institut/AbteilungSchool of Humanities

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Tom GüldemannInstitut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.08.2020

Programm(e)

2019Humboldt-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für erfahrene Forschende

Publikationen (Auswahl)

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