Ọládélé Awóbùlúyì (2013), Ẹ̀kọ́ Gírámá Èdè Yorùbá. Osogbo, Nigeria: Atman Limited.

This is a book written on the grammar of Yorùbá language. The author states at the beginning of the work that the text is not a translation of his earlier work, Essentials of Yoruba Grammar published in 1978. This is true because, although topics such as nouns, qualifiers, verbs, and adverbs are discussed in the two texts, introducers, conjunctions, disjunctions, sounds and sounds in combination discussed in the earlier work are not discussed in the latter. Instead of this, the new work includes different types of sentences – nominalized sentences, sentences that have no subjects, imperative sentences, reported speech, sentences containing reduced noun phrases which some scholars call sentences with infinitive phrases, different types of láti sentences, sentences with anti-focus marker and conditional sentences.

Even where the two texts treat the same topics, new ideas are added in the 2013 work. For example, the noun qualifiers discussed in the 2013 work is not touched upon in the 1978 text. Apart from this, recent developments in Yoruba grammar since 1978 form the major discussions in the 2013 work. Three previous articles – ‘Nominalization or Relativisation?’, ‘The Rules Guiding the Occurrence of the Yoruba Pronouns’ and ‘There are no Two Ibadan (There is only one Ibadan Town): Qualifiers without Heads’ are added as appendices in the 2013 work. Almost at the end of each of the chapters in the 2013 text, the author calls our attention to areas for future research on the topic discussed. It is an excellent text for postgraduate studies on Yoruba language.