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  • 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. ...
  • TONE AND ASPECTS OF GRAMMAR IN ÓSÓSỌ̀, EDO, NIGERIA 
    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 ...
  • TRIADIC NEXUS OF VIOLENCE, VENGEANCE AND PUNISHMENT IN SELECTED YORÙBÁ NOVELS 
    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 ...
  • URBAN YOUTH LANGUAGE IN BENIN, NIGERIA 
    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 ...
  • URHOBO VERB PHRASE LAYER 
    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 ...
  • 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 ...

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