The Semantic Expansion of 'Wife' and 'Husband' among the Yorùbá of Southwestern Nigeria

• Glavni avtor: Reuben Olúwáfé̩mi Ìkò̩tún (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Although one of the existing studies on Nigerian or African kinship terms has argued that semantic expansion of such words constitutes an absurdity to the English society, none has argued for the necessity of a specialized dictionary to address the problem of absurdity to the English society, the cu...