Linguistic Structure, Language Contact and Virtual Communication: A Festschrift for Tayo Lamidi

Professor Mufutau Temitayo Lamidi has been imparting knowledge to students andimpacting budding scholars for about two decades in the university system through teaching and

research, principally in generative syntax and contact linguistics. His book entitled Aspects of

Chomskyan Grammar (2008) is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of generative syntax.

He has also edited a number of books as well as published book chapters and several journal

articles in the areas of generative syntax, contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, contrastive linguistics,

applied linguistics and computer-mediated communication, touching many lives in the process.

Prof. Lamidi, until recently a visiting scholar at the University of Ghana, Legon, has

successfully produced several M.A. and PhD degree holders who have been very exceptional in their

respective academic endeavours. It is in recognition of his contribution to the academia and

humanity that a collection of essays entitled Linguistic Structure, Language Contact and Virtual

Communication: A Festschrift for Tayo Lamidi is being proposed to honour him. The proposed

festschrift is a scholarly engagement that is intended to provide a viable platform for scholars

around the globe to critically engage emerging trends in the areas that have been the concerns of

Prof. Lamidi’s scholarly experience in the university. We invite scholars to contribute articles in

honour of this versatile scholar. Contributors are to address topics covering the following and other

related areas:

1. Recent Developments in Generative Grammar

2. Theoretical Issues in Syntax and Morphology

3. Morphosyntax: Theory and Practice

4. Morphology/Syntax of English and African Languages

5. Syntax-semantics Interface in Bilingual Language Use

6. Syntax-phonology Interface in Bilingual Language Use

7. Syntactic Structures of Nigerian/African Languages

8. The Syntax of Nigerian/African Literary Expressions

9. The Grammar of the New Media Discourses

10. New Trends in Gender Discourses and their Structural Forms

11. The New Media and Changes in Syntactic Structures

12. Phonological Influences on the Code-switching/mixing Strategies of the EL2 User

13. Grammatical features of Code-switching and Code-mixing

14. Code-switching/mixing Involving Sign Language

15. Code-switching/mixing in Literary Texts

16. Multimodality and Code-switching/mixing on the Social Media

17. Language Choice/Change in a Virtual community

18. Nigerian English Usage in the Social Media

19. Nigerianisms/Deviant Usages in Media Discourse

20. Nigerian English in Students’ Usages in Nigerian Higher Institutions

21. English Grammar and Pedagogy in an EL2 Situation

22. Fossilized Errors in Nigerian English

23. Linguistic Issues in Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)

24. Gender and Identity Discourse

25. Contrastive Analysis of English and African languages

26. Contact Linguistics and the Creation of Creoles

The style sheet to be adopted for referencing is the current APA Format. The deadline for the

submission of the contribution, which should not exceed 6,000 words, is December 31, 2017. All

submissions should be sent electronically to akewoauthe@gmail.com and

romeaboh@gmail.com

Iyabode Omolara Akewo Daniel, PhD

Romanus Aboh, PhD