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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • CORRUPT POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN SELECTED YORÙBÁ NOVELS 
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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