Linguistics and African Languages: Recent submissions

  • LANGUAGE, IDENTITY AND IDEOLOGY IN SELECTED ẸDO (BINI) GUILDS 
    IGHASERE, WILLIAM AIGBEDO (2021-01)
    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 ...
  • THE VERB PHRASE OF USẸN DIALECT OF YORUBA 
    OGBEIFUN, AMEZE FRANCA (2021-10)
    The Verb Phrase (VP) is the domain where events are expressed in the sentence and arguments related to the verb. Extant works on Usẹn, a dialect of Yoruba spoken in Edo State, have focused on its classification, phonetics ...
  • STYLISTIC INTERPLAY OF REPETITION AND PUN IN YORÙBÁ LITERARY GENRES 
    OYÈDÈJÌ, CLEMENT KỌ́LÁDÉ (2021)
    Repetition and pun are prominent tropes in Yorùbá literary genres. Studies have shown that literary tropes have been given independent treatment in Yorùbá stylistic studies with specific attention to their aesthetic ...
  • FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF SENTENCES IN AKÍNWÙMÍ ÌṢỌ̀LÁ’S PROSE TEXTS 
    OLAKOLU, Oluwatoyin Titilayo (2020-01)
    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 ...
  • THE BASIC CLAUSE OF YORÙBÁ-ÌYÀGBÀDIALECT OF KOGI STATE, NIGERIA 
    ADÉJÙBẸ́Ẹ̀, SUNDAY (2020-01)
    The basic clause is the minimal grammatical expression that comprises the Complementiser Phrase (CP), Tense Phrase (TP) and Verb Phrase (VP). Previous studies concentrated on aspects of the phonology, morphology and syntax ...
  • FOCUSING IN GHÒTÙỌ̀, EDO STATE, NIGERIA 
    ÌLỌ̀RÍ, DEBORAH ỌMỌLARÁ (2020)
    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 ...
  • THE PORTRAIT OF THE NIGERIA POLICE FORCE IN SELECTED YORÙBÁ WRITTEN LITERARY TEXTS 
    ADAMS, JUSTINA ỌLÁBỌ̀WÁLÉ (2020)
    The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is one of the law-enforcement agencies in Nigeria. The modus operandi of the NPF has received more scholarly attention, particularly in linguistic, security, psychological and historical ...
  • A ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR ANALYSIS OF THE IGBO VERB 
    AGBO, MADUABUCHI SENNEN (2013-05)
    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 ...

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