English Loans in Yoruba Language: Linguistic Empowerment or Disenfranchisement?

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dc.contributor.authorYusuff, L.A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-08T12:31:39Z
dc.date.available2021-11-08T12:31:39Z
dc.date.issued2018-12
dc.descriptionScholarly articlesen_US
dc.description.abstractMany of Nigeria's indigenous languages have developed an intrinsic affinity with the English language, and this has resulted in crossing of forms and elements; and intermixing of linguistic features through loans especially. This paper examines this phenomenon in the Yoruba language with a view to ascertaining its effect on the language. Using the Lexicalists' theory of Generative Morphology, the paper analyzes the structures of some selected loan words in Yoruba. It conjectures that the English language, serving as a veritable communication bridge, boosts the Yoruba lexicon with words for notions and ideas that are alien to the Yoruba culture. Conversely, the Yoruba language has been suffering consistent and systematic lexical percolation through the substitution of native words with English equivalents. On these grounds, it is observed that the system or patterning of loaning in this case comes in three basic ways: domestication, integration and codemixing.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTETfunden_US
dc.identifier.citationYusuff, A (2018). English Loans in Yoruba Language: Linguistic Empowerment or Disenfranchisement?’ in JOLAN: Journal of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria. Supplement III: Language Documentation and Description in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects. (supported by TETFUND) pp.232-247 [ISSN 0189-5680]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0189-5680
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9697
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Linguistic Association of Nigeriaen_US
dc.subjectLoan wordsen_US
dc.subjectLexicalistsen_US
dc.subjectEmpowermenten_US
dc.subjectDisenfranchisementen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGIONen_US
dc.titleEnglish Loans in Yoruba Language: Linguistic Empowerment or Disenfranchisement?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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