Igala Expression and Historical Landmarks
Author | : Yesufu Etu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Igala (African people) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Yesufu Etu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Igala (African people) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ejeba, Salem Ochala |
Publisher | : M & J Grand Orbit Communications |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2017-01-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9785431185 |
The book establishes 28 phonemic consonants and 7 vowels, as well as lexical and grammatical tones in Igala. It shows the canonical syllable types as V and CV with no complexity, and relates resyllabification to the retiming of segments as tone bearing units and the duration of their mora. The work discusses nine word classes, as well as ideophones and clitics in Igala. There are splitting verbs of various structures and fully-fledged pronouns with morphologically toneless clitic counterparts that are toned in their syntactic context, among other elements of the Igala morphology. The work establishes clitics as generally bearing the grammatical tones of various categories as a result of their morphological tonelessness and their availability for post-lexical tone assignment. It also accounts for the generally complex interaction of clitics and tones in the organisation of the morphosyntax and the tone-syntax interface. Igala has both verbal and nominal extensional affixes with various semantic features. Some interesting discussions in the Igala syntax include the structural and functional types of serial verb constructions, the detransitivizing process of verb movement in object demoting structures, coreferentiality in relativised constituents and the future/non-future temporal distinction. Complementary binominals are conjoined with a specified binominal morpheme, and their rigidly irreversible structures have implications in the Igala semantics. The binominals demonstrate a grammatically specified pattern defined over a conceptual space, showing the network among conceptual categories, such as kinship, marital, social, hunter-hunted, more-less and cause-effect relationships as reflected in the Igala grammar.
Author | : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri |
Publisher | : M & J Grand Orbit Communications |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9785412741 |
The papers in this collection present the numeral systems of more than twenty Nigerian languages. The papers mainly emanate from a workshop on the numeral systems of Nigerian languages organised by the Linguistic Association of Nigeria during its 23rd Annual Conference which was held at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The workshop arose from awareness created by Dr. Eugene S.L. Chan on the need for Nigerian linguists to document this severely endangered but very important aspect of natural languages. The quantum of mathematical computations - addition, multiplication, subtraction, or a combination of two or all of these - involved in the numeral systems of Nigerian languages is remarkable. The papers reveal that a variety of numeral systems do exist, such as: binary, decimal, incomplete decimal, duodecimal, quinary, quaternary, ternary, mixed, body-part tally systems, and much more. The book is a resource about how different languages manipulate their numeral systems.
Author | : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 922 |
Release | : 2016-02-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9785416496 |
The present volume, which is the 5th in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series, is devoted to Professor Munzali A. Jibril, a celebrated icon in university administration, and an erudite Professor of English Linguistics. The title of this special edition was specifically chosen to crown Professor Jibril s academic prowess in both English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and to mark and laud his official departure from active university lectureship. 72 assessed papers are included from the many submitted. Papers cover the main theme of the volume, i.e. the interaction between English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and there are a number of papers on other secular areas of linguistics such as: language and history, language planning and policy, language documentation, language engineering, lexicography, translation, gender studies, language acquisition, language teaching and learning, pragmatics, discourse and conversational analysis, and literature in English and African languages. There is also a rich section devoted to the majwor traditional fields of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Author | : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri |
Publisher | : M & J Grand Orbit Communications |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9785416461 |
Studies in Nigerian Linguistics is a compilation of research papers on topical issues in Nigerian languages and linguistics covering three main areas of research, viz.: Language and Society, Applied Linguistics and Formal Linguistics. The papers in this volume are sectioned as such, even though there are bits of overlapping, especially for some of the papers contained in the first and second sections. The first fifteen (15) papers focus on the major theme of Language and Society in Nigeria. Many of the papers in this section address some peculiar sociolinguistic issues that affect the nation, including the nagging and lingering problem regarding the “language question” for the Nigerian nation even after five decades of the attainment of “Political Independence”, language and national development and language varieties. Section 2 contains papers in Applied Linguistics in its narrow and extended senses. There are papers on language teaching and learning, interference and intraference phenomena, language engineering (with focus on codification), communication disorders, and much more. The third section contains sixteen (16) papers in the core areas of linguistics, including phonology, morphology and syntax of Nigerian languages. Some of the papers address aspects of the phonological and morphosyntactic processes of deletion, affixation, cliticisation, causativisation, complementation, serialisation, agreement, and much more. The phrasal structure and pronominal systems of some languages were also discussed.
Author | : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 1129 |
Release | : 2016-12-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9785431193 |
The papers here were selected from presentations made at the 24th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN) which held at Bayero University Kano. The book contains seventy-seven (77) papers addressing various issues in linguistics, literature and cultures in Nigeria. The book is organized into four sections, as follows: Section One Language and Society; Section Two Applied Linguistics; Section Three Literature, Culture, Stylistics and Gender Studies and Section Four Formal Linguistics.
Author | : Ibileye, Gbenga |
Publisher | : Malthouse Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-05-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789597231 |
Previous works on Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics have either been dominantly focused on theory or on practice without much balance and attention to both theory and analysis. The present volume seeks to strike a balance between the two closely related disciplines on the one hand, and between the study of theory in the two disciplines and on issues of methodology and application in specific areas of enquiry on the other. The book seeks to provide a cross-sectional view of scholarship in these areas, specifically from the perspective of how the intersection of theory and practice enables Nigerian scholars of Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics to understand and analyse texts that have pan-Nigerian peculiarities.
Author | : Theophilus Ugbedeojo Ejeh |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 364390164X |
The author of this dissertation presents us with a cultural hermeneutical work. He toes the line of many African Theologians who have, since the 70ties and 80ties, tried to develop a postcolonial and specific African Theology. This work, therefore, which has not only given a historical analysis, but also an African oriented interpretation of the Fourth Servant Song of Isaiah, can be considered to be a successful and important contribution to the self amancipating African Theology of our time. Prof. Hans F. Fuhs -- Back cover
Author | : Johannes Hunter |
Publisher | : University of Bamberg Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 3863093933 |