Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of Yoruba Nominal Expressions written by Oladiipo Ajiboye and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures. This study is a departer from most previous work on Yoruba Grammar in the sense that rather than being purely a descriptive grammar; it attempts to provide a theoretical analysis of the internal and external syntax of Yoruba nominal expressions using the Chomskyan Principles and Parameters approach to syntax. This Generative theory attempts to characterize the grammar of all natural languages in terms of a set of universal principles that all languages share, and a set of parameters along which languages may vary. The book emphasizes the empirical motivation behind major theoretical proposals in that framework, and shows how views on the nature of universal grammar and cross-linguistic variation have developed over the years as a consequence of a massive increase in cross-linguistic syntactic research.

Download or read book The Syntax Semantics of Yor b Nominal Expressions written by Ọládiípọ̀ Jacob Ajíbóyè and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Topics on Yor b Nominal Expressions written by Ọládiípọ̀ Jacob Ajíbóyè and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Grammar of Yoruba written by Ayọ Bamgbose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A descriptive grammar of Yoruba, a major West African language spoken by over twelve million people, first published in 1966.

Download or read book Functional Categories in Igbo written by Obiamalu, Greg Orji and published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study discusses functional categories in Igbo within Noam Chomsky’s Minimalist Program (MP). Chapter 1 includes the introduction of the concept of functional categories and why they take central place in the study of syntax, as well as an overview of the Minimalist Program (MP). Chapter 2 discusses some historical antecedents to MP. It further discusses the economy principles of the MP as well as the place of functional categories within the overall conceptions of the MP model. Chapter 3 discusses five functional categories: Agreement, Tense, Aspect, Negation and Determiner. In chapter 4, the Igbo functional categories within the verbal domain: Tense, Aspect and Negation are discussed. Chapter 5 is an application of the theoretical issues raised in Chapter 2 to the analysis of the functional categories discussed in Chapter 3. One interesting issue discussed in Chapter 5 is the role of tone in realising some of the functional categories in Igbo. Chapter 6 discusses the functional categories within the nominal domain with much emphasis on the determiner. A revised version of the author’s doctoral thesis, some of the conclusions are revolutionary, relevant to debates in the linguistic theory and in Igbo studies in particular, as well as serving as an introduction to MP.

Download or read book Essentials of Yoruba Grammar written by Oladele Awobuluyi and published by University Press Plc Nigeria. This book was released on 1978 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In important respects, this book represents an independent approach to Yoruba grammar. It attempts to present the Yoruba language as it really is, rather than as seen largely from the perspective of other languages. The grammatical structure of the language is thus presented in a new way. The major parts of speech of the language are, for the first time, established uniformly on the criteria of function alone. A chapter is devoted to a systematic and novel treatment of each such part of speech, related both to the wide array of sentence types, and to its sounds and the way they are combined in words.

Download or read book A Grammar of the Yoruba Language written by Samuel Crowther and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Typological Studies written by Guglielmo Cinque and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general cross-linguistic analysis of correlatives; the need to distinguish a sentence-grammar, from a discourse-grammar, type of non-restrictives (with languages differing as to whether they possess both, one, the other, or neither); a selective type of extraction from relative clauses; and a tentative sketch of a more ample work in progress on a unified analysis of externally headed, internally headed, and headless relative clauses.

Download or read book A Syntactic and Semantic Study of Nominalization in Yor b written by Olapade Ajeigbe and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Topics in Kwa Syntax written by Enoch O. Aboh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community. As a result, these languages were only referred to in the context of very specific discussions such as serial verb constructions. But as the reader of this book will notice, syntactic topics discussed in the context of Kwa range from bare nouns, relative clauses, negation, discourse markers and the interaction with the clausal periphery, to argument structure. Many issues remain that need to be brought to the fore of the community and we hope that this book will trigger the curiosity of the reader to get to know more about these languages. Much of the work presented here could not have been possible without the help of many colleagues and the contri- tors whom we thank warmly for joining this enterprise. We are also grateful to the editors of the series, Marcel den Dikken, Joan Maling, Liliane Haegeman to have offered us this platform to initiate the debate about Kwa. We will also like to thank Helen van der Stelt and Jolanda Voogd from Springer for their kind collaboration and patience. We are also very grateful to Joscelyn Essegbey and Leston Buell for helping with editing the manuscript. Enoch, O. Aboh James Essegbey v Contents 1 The Phonology Syntax Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Enoch, O. Aboh and James Essegbey 2 The Morphosyntax of the Noun Phrase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Enoch, O.

Download or read book Grammar and Dictionary of the Yoruba Language written by Thomas Jefferson Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Yoruba Verb Phrase written by Ayọ Bamgboṣe and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Data Rich Linguistics written by Oluseye Adesola and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection was compiled by an international group of scholars in recognition of Professor Yiwola Awoyale’s contributions to African language and linguistic studies. Based at University of Pennsylvania, Professor Awoyale is particularly celebrated as a great field linguist, who pays special attention to data and data documentation. This edited volume presents current research on topics concerning the syntax, semantics, phonology, applied- and socio-linguistics of African languages, providing a state-of-the-art account of contemporary issues in African linguistics today.

Download or read book Studies in the Syntax and Semantics of Yoruba Nominalizations written by James Oládùntóyè Yíwolá Awoyalé and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Studies in the Syntax and Semantics of Yoruba Nominalizations written by Yiwola Awoyale and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies in the Syntax and Semantics of Yoruba Nominalizations written by James Oladuntoye Yiwola Awoyale and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: