A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Dangme Allusive Names

Caesar, Regina Oforiwah

doi:10.22425/jul.2019.20.2.53

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“…All these previous contributions have some resemblance with the present study; however, the works of Owu-Ewie (2014) and Caesar (2019) seem to be closely linked to this study, and so they have a significant assistance to the analysis therein. It should be stressed that these previous works among others can provide evidence that cross-cultural/linguistic studies on onomastics abound.…”

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confidence: 66%

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A Linguistic Analysis of ‘Pet Names’ in Nzema: A Morphosyntactic Description

Yakub

2020

Indian J. Lang. Linguist.

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In the field of Onomastics, many researchers have delved into the study of personal names, place names, church names and school names, among others. This paper gathers another exciting data, (i.e. names that are ascribed to pets in Nzema society) and seeks to examine the morpho-syntactic features of the ‘pet names’. The paper employs the qualitative research approach in providing a descriptive analysis of the linguistic properties that feature in pet names among the people of Nzema. In this paper, ninety (90) pet names are discussed. Relying on Haspelmath’s notion of Framework-free Theory of Grammatical Analysis, the paper demonstrates that the morphological structures of Nzema pet names include single root morphemes, lexical compounding, derivational and inflectional processes, lexical borrowing, and reduplication. These word formation processes are accompanied by some phonological processes such as vowel elision and harmony. At the syntactic/sentential level, the pet names function as simple declarative sentences, imperatives and interrogatives. Compound and complex-embedded clauses were also prevalent in the structure of the pet names. It is ascertained that these pet names are grammatically insightful and can provide a window to understanding the morphosyntactic features of the Nzema language.

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confidence: 66%

“…Naming is considered as one of the components of a cultural script; which is an important practice in many societies (Caesar, 2019). Mensah and Rowan (2019a) contend that names are conventional sings which help to preserve cultural identity and indigenous linguistic heritage.…”

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A Linguistic Analysis of ‘Pet Names’ in Nzema: A Morphosyntactic Description

Yakub

2020

Indian J. Lang. Linguist.

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“…Moreover, Batoma adds that to a greater extent, in all languages, the morphology, syntax and semantics inform the meaning of names [4]. Scholars [3,6,15,22,27] have played a great role in identifying various forms of names. They express how names are formed at morphological and syntactic level.…”

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“…Names also undergo syntactic processes where some are in phrasal and sentential structure. Caesar says that syntactically, Dangme allusive names have phrasal structure because they have specified word class elements incorporated in them such as verbs, adjectives, adverbs, postpositions and conjunctions [6] PRO N(subj) V PRO (OBJ) post b) Kafodzidzi kafo dzi dzi (Kafo dzi dzi) debtor eat eat (Debtor eats) Source: ( [22], p. 39) Apart from that, women's hairstyles are among the things that are given names which are the main target of this study. Hairstyles are things that are available in reality and we expect them to have names.…”

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A Linguistic Study of Women’s Hairstyle Names

Pius,

Tibategeza,

Ligembe

2024

IJLL

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The main focus of the study was to investigate on women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni Municipal Council, which is found in Dar es Salaam region, Tanzania. This paper focuses on two specific objectives, namely to identify women’s hairstyle names and to find out the structural patterns of women’s hairstyle names. The study is a qualitative study guided by onomastic theory of naming and morpheme-based theory. The study employed descriptive research designs. Semi-structured interview and observation methods were used to collect data, where 16 respondents who were obtained through snowball and convenience sampling techniques. The findings reveal that, women’s hairstyles have meanings which are either denotative or connotative or both. They are derived from different sources such as insects, number, appearance, parts of human body, animal body parts, flora, insecticides, land forms, social events and names of famous people. Therefore, women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni are deliberately created, not accidentally constructed. Moreover, women’s hairstyle names in Kinondoni Municipality possess morphological and syntactic patterns. Under morphological structure, women’s hairstyle names are in free morphemes, affixation, compounding and reduplication. Syntactically, women’s hairstyle names have noun phrases and sentential structures. In relation to the data from the field, the paper concludes that there is no rigidity on women’s hairstyle names compared to other kinds of names such as personal names. This is because women’s hairstyle names are replaced or used interchangeably with other hairstyle names which mean the same.

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“…In the build-up of the morphological process, there are obvious interactions between bound and free morphemes, and between two or more free morphemes. The morphosyntactic analysis of the status of the morphemes is vital to head identification in any derivation (Táíwò 2014, Omachonu 2015, Caesar 2019). Headedness can be described as the identification of the central morpheme which is by distribution, equivalent to the phrase in a syntactic representation (Crystal 2008).…”

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Typology of Headedness in Yorùbá Nominal Derivations

Eleshin¹

2021

J. Univers. Lang.

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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

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A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Dangme Allusive Names

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

A Linguistic Analysis of ‘Pet Names’ in Nzema: A Morphosyntactic Description

A Linguistic Analysis of ‘Pet Names’ in Nzema: A Morphosyntactic Description

A Linguistic Study of Women’s Hairstyle Names

Typology of Headedness in Yorùbá Nominal Derivations

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