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 ...

Focusing, a syntactic process, places communicative prominence on different constituents of the sentence. The Edoid group of languages is distinguished by the prevalence of focusing as strategy for determining information ...

A sentence is a unit of grammatically linked words, grouped meaningfully to express a statement, question, command or emphasis. Existing studies on Akinwumi Ìṣọ̀lá’s texts have concentrated on the stylistic analysis without ...

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 ...

The Ẹdo guilds system is a professional body associated with the Edo (Bini) socio-cultural and political institutions revolving around the monarch. Extant studies on this system have essentially concentrated on its historical ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) is central to the analysis of Niger-Congo languages because of its function and meaning properties, which are consistent with the clause structure of these languages. Many existing studies ...