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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...