Current Research in African Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Ọladele Awobuluyi - Hardcover

Syntactic Structures of the World's Languages", a collaborative online resource for linguists managed by scholars at the University of California, Los Angeles and New York University. Lendzemo Constantine Yuka is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages at the University of Benin, where he has been teaching Syntax and Morphology for the past seventeen years. He has published widely on language planning, language acquisition and the grammar of Lamnso'. He is currently compiling a Lamnso/English Dictionary, and is Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Linguistics Studies, Assistant Editor of the Nigerian Journal of the Humanities and the Journal of the Linguistics Association of Nigeria, and Secretary-Treasurer of the West African Linguistics Society."

Current Research in African Linguistics recognizes and honors O ladele Awobuluyi's contributions to African linguistics. The contributors, an international group of scholars, represent four generations of African linguists who have been influenced by Awobuluyi's work as a scholar and teacher. The papers are organized into three thematic sections, namely applied linguistics and sociolinguistics; phonology and morphology; and syntax and semantics and their interfaces. The wide range of topics investigated in this volume will enhance the reader's understanding of current issues in the field of African linguistics today. Indeed, the book marks an important contribution to the expanding work on language documentation and comparative linguistics by presenting data and linguistic analysis from a number of different African languages.