Typology of Headedness in Yorùbá Nominal Derivations
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Date
2021-03
Authors
Eleshin, A.
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Language Research Institute, Sejong University
Abstract
This study examines headedness in different nominalisation processes in Yorùbá. This research aims to investigate possible unification of head analysis in Yorùbá nominalisation. Three major word formation strategies exist in Yorùbá, namely, affixation, reduplication and nounnoun compounding (N-N compounding henceforth). The morphosyntactic relationship among these three, in respect to a unifying analytical goal, has not been fairly considered. Operation merge, with other principles of the Minimalist Programme, is selected to validate my claim about the unified analysis of headedness in Yorùbá. This paper employs the qualitative method of data collection. Data were sourced from both primary and secondary means. I claim that there exists a parallel morphosyntactic structure for the three nominalisation
processes in Yorùbá. I establish that the three nominalisation structures have the same syntactic representation as far as their headedness and their internal syntax is concerned. Findings in this study show that, firstly, prefixes, reduplicant and the first noun in an N-N compounding are the head. Secondly, they all occupy the same parallel positions in their varying structures.
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Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION , Nominalisation , Morpho-syntax , Prefixation , Reduplication , N-N compounding
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Eleshin, A. (2021). Typology of Headedness in Yorùbá Nominal Derivations.