OKOTIE Elizabeth Folasade

Department: Linguistics and African Languages

Rank: Lecturer II

Phone number: 08053497467

Email address(es): folasadeokotie@yahoo.com, elizabethokotie24@gmail.com

Office Address: Room 205, Department of Linguistics and African Languages, African Studies Building, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Academic Qualifications:

B.A Yoruba (Ife), M.A, MPA, PhD. Yoruba Language & Literature (Ife)

Areas of Specialization: Syntax, Morphology, Dialectology

Title of M.A Thesis:

A comparative Study of the Syntax of Auxiliary in Yoruba and Itsekiri Languages

Title of PhD:

A syntactic Analysis of Relative clauses and Focus Constuctions in Yorùbá, Itsekiri

and Olùkùmi

Scholarships:

Chief J.F. Ọdúnjọ Prize for the student with the best result in Literature in Yorùbá

in the 1990/1991 Part IV B.A. Degree Examination-2004.

Carnegie Sponsored Scholarships For Female Postgraduate Students, Center for Gender

and Social Policy, OAU, Ile-Ife.

Fellowships: Fellow, Ife Institute of Advance Studies (IIAS)

Ongoing Current Research:

Mofo- síńtáàsì Àwọn Orúkọ Ajẹmọ́fẹ̀

Publications:

Onitiju, Elizabeth Folasade (2009). “ Gbólóhùn Àkíyèsí Alátẹnumọ́ àti Awẹ́ Gbólóhùn  Aṣàpèjúwe nínú Ẹ̀ka-èdè Ifẹ̀ (Focus Construction and Relative Clauses in Ife Dialect of Yoruba), in Adika, G.S.K. FAbunmi, F.A. & Salawu, A.S. (eds), Current Perspectives in Phono-syntax and Dialectology, pp 291-308, Ghana: A Publication of the Department of Gur-Gonja, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.

Onitiju, Elizabeth Folasade (2013). “ Àfiwé Ìyísódì Nínú Èdè Yorùbá Àjùmọ̀lò àti Èdè Ẹ̀dó  (A Contrastive Analysis of Negation in Standard Yorùbá and Edo Language), in FAbunmi, F.A. & Salawu, A.S. (eds) Readings in African Dialectology and Applied Linguistics, pp 123-152. Munchen, Germany: LINCOM EUROPA Academic Publishers.

Okotie, E.F. 2025. “Complementizers in Ife: A Desciptive Analysis” YORUBA:  The Journal of Yorùbá Studies Association of Nigeria. Vol 14, No. 2: 36-47.

Staff Profile

Okotie Elizabeth Folasade is currently a  Lecturer II in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Her research interests are Child idiolects, Dialectology, Morphology and Language translation.