Biography

Mary Amaechi is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Potsdam, Germany in 2020. Mary Amaechi’s research focuses on syntax and its interfaces with morphology and phonology with emphasis on African languages. She has worked on topics involving wh-questions, cleft constructions, focus, serial verbs, comparative constructions, existential, and subject-object reversal. Her main research project at the moment focuses on the documentation and analysis of some aspects of the syntax of Lokaa, a Cross-River language of southern Nigeria. She is a member of the Association of Contemporary African Linguistics (ACAL) and the West African Linguistic Society (WALS).