F.A. Soyoye
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F.A. Soyoye
Soyoye
Adewole
Ayo Bamgbose
Bamgbsoe
In Honour of Professor Ayo Bamgbose
- F.A. Soyoye and L.O. Adewole, eds., In Honour of Professor Ayo Bamgboye
(Ile- Ife, Nigeria: African Languages and Literature, No. 3 Pp. vii + 183; Department of African Languages and Literatures, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Awon apileko merinlelogun ni a kojo po sinu iwe. A ko iwe naa lati ye Ojogbon Ayo Bamgbose si. Awon nnkan ti o wa ninu iwe naa ni a ko ni soki ni ede Geesi ni isale yii.
The special edition of this occasional publication brings together 24 essays as a festschrift for Professor Ayo Bamgbose who retired from the University of Ibadan after crowning it with the Nigerian National Merit Award, the highest honour for a Nigerian academic.
Ayo Bamgbose is a towering influence on the study of linguistics in Nigeria… With over a hundred publications he is a household name in Yoruba linguistics. One of the editors of this volume, Dr. L.O. Adewole, is moving in the intellectual direction of Ayo Bamgbose… Dr. Adewole has completed three book-length works in the last five years. His annotated bibliography, The Yoruba Language, has been la welcome addition to the literature.
The 24 essays in this book are written by the established a new names in Yoruba literature and linguistics. The topics are varied, perhaps a reflection of the scholarship of Bamgbose himself…
Three essays on the contribution of Yoruba scholars like Isaac Delano and Joseph Odumosu. There are new critique on verbs. As usual, aspects of literature dominate the volume, with essays on Oladapo the poet, songs and new novels. The quality of the essays is uneven land several of the contribuytors are not rigorous in the formulation of concepts and application of theories. Nevertheless, this is a good book: it is an excellent tribute to the fine career of Ayo Bamgbose and a good source of information to assess the development of the study of Yoruba language and literature (written by Prof. Toyin Faloloa, Dept. of History, The University of Texas At Austin, Austin, Texas, USA; sent in by L.O. Adewole.
The festschrift contains the following linguistic articles: The Yoruba Relative and Focus Constructions: The problem of Coordination (by L.O. Adewole); A Comparative Study of Vowel Assimilation in Moba and the Standard Yoruba Dialects (by R. Bamisile); Vowel Deletion in Yoruba Verb-Noun Collocation Revisited (by Olanike Ola); Gerundive Nominals and Purpose Nominals in Yoruba (by D.K.O. Owolabi); The Categorial Status and Functions of Fi and Ba in Yoruba (by F.A. Soyoye) etc.