Ben Elugbe
Biographic Data
| ID | 9042661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Elugbe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Elugbe |
| SIGNATURE | BEN ELUGBE |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ibadan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Tonal Identification of Yoruba Dialects
This article studies variations in the realisation of contour tones in Oyo, Ibadan, Ife, Igbomina, Ijebu, Ijesa, Ilorin, and Onko dialects of Yoruba and reports that the dialects exploit different dimensions of contour tone realisation to distinguish themselves. Ife, Igbomina and Ijesa dialects reduce the frequency of contour tones via high tone lowering and contour levelling, whereas Ijebu dialect multiplies contours in several ways. For instanc…
Consonant Voicing, Tonal Morphemes, and Downstep in Gwari
This paper studies the downstep phenomenon in Gwari, a West Benue-Congo language spoken in Nigeria and reports that high and mid tones are subject to downstepping in the language. The phenomenon is however blocked in syllables whose onsets contain voiceless obstruents. It is also reported that in the associative construction, the language marks the genitive relation with a floating high tonal morpheme (H-tomorph) that has the capability to dock d…
Morphology of the gerund in Degema and its reconstruction in proto-Edoid
The gerund in Degema (Delta Edoid) is derived by affixing a discontinuous morpheme to the verb stem. Verb stems ending in a vowel take a shorter form of this morpheme while stems ending in a consonant (even if such a consonant is derived from an underlying close vowel by glide formation) have the longer allomorph affixed to them. Cognates of this morpheme are identified in the three other branches of Edoid, and an attempt is therefore made to rec…
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Morphology of the gerund in Degema and its reconstruction in proto-Edoid
The gerund in Degema (Delta Edoid) is derived by affixing a discontinuous morpheme to the verb stem. Verb stems ending in a vowel take a shorter form of this morpheme while stems ending in a consonant (even if such a consonant is derived from an underlying close vowel by glide formation) have the longer allomorph affixed to them. Cognates of this morpheme are identified in the three other branches of Edoid, and an attempt is therefore made to rec…
Consonant Voicing, Tonal Morphemes, and Downstep in Gwari
This paper studies the downstep phenomenon in Gwari, a West Benue-Congo language spoken in Nigeria and reports that high and mid tones are subject to downstepping in the language. The phenomenon is however blocked in syllables whose onsets contain voiceless obstruents. It is also reported that in the associative construction, the language marks the genitive relation with a floating high tonal morpheme (H-tomorph) that has the capability to dock d…
A Tonal Identification of Yoruba Dialects
This article studies variations in the realisation of contour tones in Oyo, Ibadan, Ife, Igbomina, Ijebu, Ijesa, Ilorin, and Onko dialects of Yoruba and reports that the dialects exploit different dimensions of contour tone realisation to distinguish themselves. Ife, Igbomina and Ijesa dialects reduce the frequency of contour tones via high tone lowering and contour levelling, whereas Ijebu dialect multiplies contours in several ways. For instanc…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Consonant (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Morpheme (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Vowel (2 works)