The present electronic document is a completely new edition of 'An Index of Nigerian
Languages' by David Crozier and Roger Blench (1992), which in turn replaced Keir …

•'Expletive','pleonastic','dummy'subject as they're usually interpreted: placeholders
associated with a specific syntactic position (Spec-IP in generative terms)• Importantly, the …

Pronouns, words which refer anaphorically to noun phrases whose referents are named or
understood from context, are one of the universal linguistic categories that play a central role …

This paper provides a description of the post-nominal pronoun construction in Esan
(ISH)[Edoid, Benue-Congo, Niger-Congo: Edo State, Nigeria]. Within this construction, the …

This study sought to find out the position of verb particle in negative sentences in Esan
language and to find out whether her genetic nature, being member of Edoid, reflects the …