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Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Michel DeGraff and Salikoko Mufwene for their many comments on previous versions of this note. All remaining imperfections are mine.
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Notes on contributor
Enoch Oladé Aboh is a professor of linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, where he investigates the learnability of human language with a special focus on comparative syntax; language creation, and language change. His main publications include The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars, CUP 2015 and The Morphosyntax of Head-Complement Sequences, OUP 2004, several edited volumes, as well as dozens of articles in scholarly journals. In 2008, he was a visiting professor at MIT where he taught two courses. He has also taught several summer schools, including, LOT 2005 Groningen, LOT 2010 Nijmegen, LOT 2014 Vrije Universiteit, LSA 2005 MIT/Harvard, and LSA 2015 University of Chicago. As a founding member and co-organizer of the African Linguistics School, he is strongly engaged in working toward a better transfer of knowledge from North to South.