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  • SÀLÁÙ, Fọlárànmí Dáúdà (2023-05)
    Poetics of politics, the use of poems to reflect governance in the society, is common among Yoruba written poets. These poets use their poetic prowess to showcase their political poems. Previous studies on contemporary ...
  • SAKA, Idayat Oyenike (2023-09)
    Riddle, a form of literary art in which a speaker employs formulaic expressions to test someone’s wit on a veiled phenomenon, is deployed in languages (including Yorùbá) to express peoples’ experiences about their ...
  • ONWUEGBUZIA, Emeka Felix (2023-09)
    Lexical elaboration, a strategy in which new lexical items are developed, is a manifest feature of languages, including Naija. Extant linguistic studies on Naija focused mainly on the sociological and attitudinal dimensions, ...
  • OBIORAH, Kenneth Ekezie (2023-08)
    Pronunciation Variation (PV), a situation where a lexical item is articulated differently by speakers of a language, is prevalent in Nigerian languages, especially those with multiplicity of dialects, including Igbo. ...
  • Unknown author (2023-08)
    Segmental assimilation, which affects features that are inherent in segments, is generally situated within the phonology-morphology interface across languages, including Hausa. Previous studies on Hausa reduplicative ...
  • USENBO, Perpetual (2023-09)
    Pronouns, words which refer anaphorically to noun phrases whose referents are named or understood from context, are one of the universal linguistic categories that play a central role in the grammar of languages, including ...
  • KÍARÍBẸ̀ Ẹ, LUQMAN ABÍSỌ́ lÁ (2023-06)
    Orin kete and Orin agbè are Yorùbá oral poetic forms predominantly performed among the Ìbàràpá and Òkè-Ògùn people of Ọ̀ yọ́ State, South-West Nigeria. Previous studies on Yorùbá oral poetry have focused largely on poetic ...
  • AYANTAYO, Joshua Sunday (2023-09)
    Herdsmen-farmers’ conflict (HFC) is one of the major conflicts that has been widely reported in Nigeria. Extant linguistic studies on HFC in Nigerian newspapers focused mainly on linguistic framing, as well as discursive ...
  • ỌLÁŃREWÁJÚ, Emmanuel Ọmọniyì (2022-02)
    Focus refers to the part of a clause which provides the most relevant or salient information in a given discourse situation, while interrogatives are conventionally associated with the act of requesting information. ...
  • SHUAIBU, ABDULWAHEED (2022-01)
    Language accommodation, a phenomenon in urban sociolinguistics, is the conscious and conscientious use of other languages’ repertoire in communication. Existing works on urban sociolinguistics, particularly in the Nigerian ...
  • EVBAYIRO, Osayimwese Violet (2022-01)
    Urban youth language (UYL) is a means of identity of the urban youth sense of self and their personal classification marker. Extant studies on UYL in Nigeria concentrated more on code-switching/mixing, ethnicity, youth ...
  • OSEWA, Oludewa Roselyn (2022-02)
    Pitch, a vital factor in the determination of tone, stress and intonation, which places utterances on a scale ranging from low to high, is an important feature of Iṣẹkírì, a Yoruboid language. Extant studies on ...
  • LẸ́GBẸ́TÌ, Agnes Temítọ́pẹ́ (2022-03)
    Tone performs lexical and grammatical functions in language. Extant studies on Edoid languagesconfirm this in noun and verb phrases. These works have, however, not included North Central Edoid languages like Ósósọ̀. This ...
  • ÀLÀÓ, Gbó̩lágadé Amos (2022-01)
    Metaphysics constitutes an integral aspect of Yorùbá sociocultural life. Previous studies on Yorùbá metaphysical elements have largely been situated in film and philosophical studies, with little attention paid to their ...
  • FÁBỌ́RỌ̀DÉ, RẸ̀MÍ ADÉJỌKẸ́ (2022-01)
    Violence, vengeance and punishment are parts of fundamental challenges confronting the human race, as represented in Yorùbá novels. Previous studies have focused on the historical survey, development, conflict management ...
  • WILLIAM, O̩LÁDÉLÉ S̩ÀNGÓTÓYÈ (2021-12)
    Human rights violation and redress are dominant issues in literary works from the colonial to the post-colonial Nigeria. Previous studies on Yoruba written plays have focused largely on socio-cultural affairs, with little ...
  • ALEH, Eseoghene (2021-07)
    The verb phrase (VP) layer is the domain of clausal event and the argument structure of the verb. Extant works on Urhobo, an Edoid language, have listed lexical and phrasal categories and types of sentences in the ...
  • ÌLỌ̀RÍ, EMMANUEL AKÍNYÍNKÁ (2021)
    Corrupt political leadership and other issues related to misgovernance are some of the motifs in both pre-independence and post-independence Yorùbá novels. Existing studies on the novels have focused more on political ...
  • FÁLADÉ, MONÍSỌ́LÁ RÓNKẸ́ (2021)
    Ambiguity, the occurrence of double or multiple meanings, is a natural language universal. Existing studies in the application of linguistics to Yorùbá literary discourse have focused on Yorùbá proverbs, incantations, ...
  • JAPHET, Akintoye Samson (2021)
    Personal pronouns specify grammatical features of the persons involved in discourse. Previous studies in Ìlàjẹ, a southeastern Yorùbá dialect, have identified these features as basically morphosyntactic in nature ...

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