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.
