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  • 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 ...
  • FORMS AND FEATURES OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN THE ÌLÀJẸ DIALECT OF YORÙBÁ 
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • IDEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF HERDSMEN-FARMERS’ CONFLICT IN SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS 
    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 ...
  • INTERPERSONAL AND TEXTUAL MEANING OF THE LANGUAGE OF YORÙBÁ RIDDLES 
    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 ...
  • LANGUAGE ACCOMMODATION AND LINGUISTIC BORROWING IN THE GAMBARI QUARTERS, ÌLỌRIN, NIGERIA 
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • LEXICAL AND POST-LEXICAL PITCH FEATURES IN IṢẸKÍRÌ OF DELTA STATE, NIGERIA 
    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 ...
  • LEXICAL ELABORATION IN NAIJA 
    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, ...
  • LINGUISTIC AMBIGUITY IN YORÙBÁ POETIC DISCOURSE 
    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, ...
  • METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS IN YORÙBÁ WRITTEN LITERATURE 
    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 ...
  • A MORPHOSYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF THE Ẹ̀ DÓ PRONOUN 
    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 ...
  • THE POETICS OF POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY YORÙBÁ WRITTEN POETRY 
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • PRONUNCIATION VARIATION IN IGBO RADIO NEWSCASTING 
    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. ...
  • REPRESENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION AND REDRESS IN SELECTED YORÙBÁ WRITTEN PLAYS 
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • SEGMENTAL ASSIMILATION IN HAUSA NOMINAL AND VERBAL REDUPLICATIVE MORPHOLOGY 
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • A SYNTAX OF FOCUS AND INTERROGATIVES IN CENTRAL YORÙBÁ DIALECTS 
    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. ...

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