Publications

  1. Aziza, R. O., P. O. Ekiugbo, E. M. Ajiboye and C. Onakpoberuo. (2026). Computer Terms in Urhobo. To appear in: Aridon: The International Journal of Urhobo Studies 5.
  2. Ekiugbo, P. O. (2025). On the Orthography of Urhobo-English Loanwords. Aridon: The International Journal of Urhobo Studies 4: 108-133.
  3. Akinbo S. and P. O. Ekiugbo (2024). Iconicity as the motivation for morphophonological metathesis and truncation in Nigerian Pidgin. Open Linguistics 10(1): 20240013
  4. Ekiugbo P. O. and J. U. Edu (2024). Discourse patterns in corporate earnings calls. In F. O. Imu, P. O. Ekiugbo and A. U. Kabir (eds.), Navigating the fecund fields of linguistics, literature, literacy and communication studies: a festschrift in honour of Professor Obiajulu A. Emejulu, Pp. 369-378. Aba: National Institute for Nigerian Languages.
  5. Eme, C. A. and P. O. Ekiugbo. (2024). Hiatus Resolution in Urhobo: A Constraint-Based Account. An-Najah Research Journal B (Humanities) 32(2): 403-418.
  6. Ekiugbo, P. O. and C. A. Eme (2023). Coda Adaptation in Urhobo-English Loanwords: A Constraint-Based Account. Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching 14(1): 107-120.
  7. Ekiugbo, P. O. 2022. Rule Ordering in Uvwie. Macrolinguistics 10(1): 89-107. [PDF]
  8. Ekiugbo, P. O. and E. M. Darah. 2022. and E. M. Darah. (2022). A Survey of Language Use by Speakers of Minor Nigerian Languages in the Social Media Spaces. Hayatian Journal of Linguistics and Literature 6(1): 273-292. [PDF]
  9. Darah, E. M. and P. O. Ekiugbo. 2022. Psychological Manipulation in Political Discourse: A Case Study of Facebook Posts on Urhobo Language Curriculum. TRANS-KATA: Journal of Language, Literature, Culture, and Education 3(1): 13-21.
  10. Ekiugbo, P. O. and C. U. C. Ugorji. 2019. A Descriptive Phonology of the vowel system of Uvwie. Linguistique et Langues Africaines 5: 89-107. [PDF]
  11. Ejobee, L. O. and P. O. Ekiugbo. 2018. Children and Language Choice: A Case Study of Abraka Speech Community. Journal of Linguistic Association of Nigeria 21(1): 110-115. [PDF]
  12. Ekiugbo, P. O. 2018. A Note on Lexical Nominalization in Urhobo. In: S. I. Awhefeada, E. Ojaruega and P. E. Omoko (eds), Scholarship and Commitment: Essays in honour of G. G. DARAH, Pp. 473-478. Lagos: Malthouse Press Limited.
  13. Ekiugbo, P. O. and A. Diffre-Odiete. 2018. Is Erohwa Still Alive? Journal of Linguistic Association of Nigeria (Supplement III): 60-67.
  14. Ekiugbo, P. O. and T. V. Ayunku. 2018. Affixation Types in Izon. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation1(3): 1-5.
  15. Emonefe, A. O., C. U. C. Ugorji and P. O. Ekiugbo. 2017. Is Uvwie a Dialect of Urhobo? University of Benin Journal of Humanities 5(1): 27-52.
  16. Ikoyo-Eweto, E. O. and P. O. Ekiugbo. 2017. A Phonetic Analysis of Uvwie Vowels. Journal of West African Languages 44 (2): 1-13.
  17. Darah, M. E. and P. O. Ekiugbo. 2014. Dissecting the Phenomenon of Borrowing in Urhobo. Journal of Linguistics, Language and Culture 1: 17-27.

Ongoing Research

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