Kola Owolabi
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Kola Owolabi
Awon Apileko fun Ayo Bamgbsoe
Kola Owolabi (ed.) (1995), Langurage in Nigeria. Ibadan Nigeria. ISBN 978-2895-00-8. 529 pp.
Atoka awon ohun ti a ko nnkan le lori ninu iwe naa ni a to si isale wonyi;
Contents
Contributors ix Foreword xi Acknowledgements xiv Dedication xv
1. Introduction and Overview
Kola Owolabi 1
Section I: Phonetics and Phonology
2. Denasalization lin Yoruba: A Non-Linear Approach
O. Awobuluyi and F. Oyebade 16
3. Discrimination and Identification of Yoruba Tones: Perception
Experiments and Acoustic Analysis Clement A. Bakare 32
4. The ‘Assimilated Low Tone’ in Ghotuo
Ben Elugbe 68
5. Prosodic Truncation and Template Satisfaction in Ibibio Verbs
Akinbiyi Akinlabi 75
Section II: Morphology and Syntax
6. More on Yoruba Prefixing Morphology
Kola Owolabi 92
7. The Role of Functional Categories in Syntax: The Yoruba Case
Yiwola Awoyale 113
8. The ‘Grade’ as a Functional Element and Re-interpretation
of Relations in the Hausa Verbal Component A.H. Amfani 128
9. Category Incorporation in West African Languages
I.S.G. Madugu 142
10. X – Movement and Igbo Complex Predicates
M.A. Uwalaka 156
Section III: Sociolinguistics and Foreign Language Teaching/Learning
11. On Language Use and Modernity in Nigeria
Ayo Banjo 177
12. Language Education Provisions in Nigeria’s National Policy
on Education: A Critique Adekunle Adeniran 189
13. Towards a Study of Linguistic Variation in Yoruba:
A Preliminary Statement S. Oluwole Oyetade 201
14. Issues in the Establishment of Standard Igbo
E. Nolue Emenanjo 213
15. Modern European and Nigerian Languages in Contact
A.G. Adebayo 230
Section IV: Literature
16. Yoruba Folklore as Source Material in Fagunwa’s Novels
Balogun Ogunpolu 238
17. Fagunwa’s Brave Spirit: A Study of the Contexts
Literary Reputation D.S. Izevbaye 250
18. Langbodo: A Dramatic Adaptation of Ogboju Ode Ninu
Igbo Irumole P.A. Ogundeji 276
19. The Bahaviour of Words in Wole Soyinka’s The Road
Femi Fatoba 286
20. Colonialism and the Yoruba Writer: A Study of Ladele’s
Igba Lo De Bisi Ogunsina 297
21. The Role of Literature in the Intellectual and Social
Development of the African Child Akinwumi Isola.
22. The Monologic Cult: Modern Literature and the Problems
of Audience in Africa (Preliminary Notes) Femi Osofisan. 323
23. Femi Fatoba: A New Voice in Yoruba Poetry
Olatunde O. Olatunji 330
Section V: Stylistics
24. Caliban’s Gamble: The Syylistic Repercussions of Writing
African Literature in English Niyi Osundare 340
25. Translation and the African Writer in English:
A Sample Study of Achebe’s TFA and NLAE A. Lekan Oyeleye 364
26. A Stylistic Analysis of Some of the Novels of Achebe and Beti
Anthony Biakolo 380
Section VI: Language and Culture
27. African World, Western Concepts: The Problem of
Language and Meaning in Religio-anthropological Interpretations of /African World-Views Olusegun Oladipo 396
28. Socio-Economic Dynamics and The Development of
Emai Counting System Francis Egbokhare 408
29. The Impact of Arabic on the Linguistic and Cultural Life of
the Yoruba People Sayed H.A. Malik 424
Section VII: Language and Education
30. Determining Language in Education Policy: The Dilemma
in Africa Adedeji Awoniyi 441
31. The Teaching of Adult Literacy
M.A.L. Omole and Gbolagade Adekanmbi 455
32. The need for Medical Vocabulary in Nigerian Languages O.F. Fafowora 471
33. Editing the Editor’s Own English: Some Observations on the
“Literacy” of Nigerian Book Editors. Festus Agboola Adesanoye 474
34. Language and Disability: The Nigerian Experience
Julie N. Onwuchekwa and I.A. Nwazuoke 490 Appendix A. Bamgbose’s Curriculum Vitae 503
Appendix B. Other Papers Received 522
Name Index 524