Sessional Faculty Member
B.A. (University of Uyo), M.A. (University of Manitoba), Ph.D Candidate (York)
Current and Upcoming Courses
LING 1001H-A, 1001H-B, 3070H
Hobbies
Precious enjoys cooking, watch crime TV shows and documentaries, sing and read novels. Also enjoys doing research in Linguistics, particularly in Pidgins and Creoles.
Conference Presentations/Publications
- Precious Affia. 2024. Plural marking in Nigerian Pidgin English: A sociolinguistic study of diaspora speakers. In Yaqian Huang, Nina Hagen Koldhol, Jun Jie Lim, Sharon Rose & Anthony Struthers-Young (eds.), ACAL in SoCAL: Selected papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 53-80. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11210446
- Affia, P. (2023). Nigerian Pidgin English: The identity of a Nigerian away from home. Working papers in Applied Linguistics and Linguistics at York, 3.
- Double number marking in Nigerian Pidgin English Precious Affia and Jila Ghomeshi. University of Manitoba. Presented in Canadian Linguistics Association Conference, BC Vancouver. (June 1-3, 2019).
- The use of focuser like and you-know among Filipino English language speakers in Winnipeg, Presented in Change and Variation in Canada (CVC 11). (June 14-15, 2019).
- A Sociolinguistics Analysis of Plural Marking in Nigerian Pidgin English. Presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics 53 (ACAL 53). (April 7- 9, 2022). (Published).
- The Perpetuation of Rape Myths: A Nigerian Case of Linguistics of Blame. Presented in Prairie Workshop and Languages and Linguistics (PWoLL) VI. (June 8-9, 2022).
- Nigerian Pidgin English: The Identity of a Nigerian Away From Home. Presented in the Conference for Language Communication, and Culture. (August, 17-18, 2022). (Published)