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- Born in Nigeria in 1937 and had all my univerity education in the US, and obtained the following degrees: B.A. (Classics) 1961, University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado. I was on the Dean's Honours list in 1960 -1961 and was inducted as Phi Beta Kappa by the Alpha of Colorado in 1961. M.A. (Latin) 1962, Columbia University, New York City, USA M.A. (Lingu... moreBorn in Nigeria in 1937 and had all my univerity education in the US, and obtained the following degrees:
B.A. (Classics) 1961, University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado. I was on the Dean's Honours list in 1960 -1961 and was inducted as Phi Beta Kappa by the Alpha of Colorado in 1961.
M.A. (Latin) 1962, Columbia University, New York City, USA
M.A. (Linguistics) 1964, Columbia University, New York City, USA
PhD (Linguistics) May 1967, Columbia University, New York City, USA
I taught at MSU, East Lansing 1967-1978; Centre for Applied Linguistics, Washington DC, 1968-1969; University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria 1969-1971; Lehman College CUNY 1971-1973; University of Lagos, Lagos, NIgeria 1973-1976; University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria 1976-2001; Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Ondo State, Nigeria 2001-2012.edit - Supervised for MA and PhD by the Prof Uriel Weinreichedit
Excised for convenience from my forthcoming Essentials of Yoruba Grammar,, Second Edition, the paper shows that cognate objects do exist in Yoruba. Claims that some relative clauses there are actual sentential nominalisation grossly... more
Excised for convenience from my forthcoming Essentials of Yoruba Grammar,, Second Edition, the paper shows that cognate objects do exist in Yoruba. Claims that some relative clauses there are actual sentential nominalisation grossly overstate or misstake their case and are therefore completely misleading. And the third-person singular subject pronoun in the language morphologically just cannot be the element ó, which is actually a tense marker in the language.
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The paper shows, with four types of examples that have generally never been paid the required attention in the language, that the third-person singular subject pronoun is actually not ó, as nearly every Yoruba grammarian thinks and... more
The paper shows, with four types of examples that have generally never been paid the required attention in the language, that the third-person singular subject pronoun is actually not ó, as nearly every Yoruba grammarian thinks and believes. The pronoun takes a covert form in subject position in the language, as in Yóò lọ, yóò si padà kíá. 'He/She will/would go and back in no time.'
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While conversion appears to be a morphological process for many languages such as English, in Standard Yoruba it is both morphological and syntactic. That calls for redefining the process somewhat more broadly as "changing the category or... more
While conversion appears to be a morphological process for many languages such as English, in Standard Yoruba it is both morphological and syntactic. That calls for redefining the process somewhat more broadly as "changing the category or function of a linguistic element virtually without changing its form." The elements that are susceptible to conversion in Yoruba are nouns and sentences, and their conversion is better accounted for syntactically rather than morphologically.
