Bilingual aphasia, an acquired language disorder in which individuals exhibit parallel impairment in the different modalities of speech in two languages, is a major global public health issue. Extant phonological studies ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...