Abstract:Widely attested in both creole and non-creole languages of the Atlantic basin, the function word o has
been traditionally described as a ‘sentence/phrase final particle’, owing to its typical syntactic behaviour, rather than to its multiple
grammatical meanings. Based on the corpus-driven analysis of the NaijaSynCor, a ~400K words corpus of spoken Naijá (i.e., Nigerian Pidgin),
this study suggests that sentence-final o can be better described as an ‘illocutionary force indicator’ … Show more
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