Truncation of SOme Akan Personal Names

Adomako, Kwasi

doi:10.17576/gema-2015-1501-09

Cited by 5 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Such sequence has been observed to be permitted in Akan personal names only at the juncture of two separate personal names said in a fast speech, and even that, such a sequence is as a result of compensatory lengthening (cf. Adomako 2015). This sequence can be of the same vowel quality, as in the examples above (under 'b-deletion'), or of two different qualities between the V1-and the remnant -V2V3 of the female morpheme.…”

Section: Reduction In the Female Morpheme -Baamentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Similarly, Agyekum (2006) also makes the same claim and in addition discusses other types of names such as event names, circumstantial names, birth number names, etc. Further references on the Akan naming practices are from Boadi (1984), Ansu-Kyeremeh (2000), Obeng (1997Obeng ( , 2001), Adomako (2015), among others. Brempong (1991) also talks briefly on this naming practice and the etymology of some Akan names including day-names; however, he fails to discuss the etymology of these names though he mentions them.…”

Section: Akan Naming Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Morphophonological Analysis of Akan Female Family-Name Formation

Adomako

2017

Ghana J. Ling.

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper examines the morphophonological processes in the derivation of some female family-names in Akan, a Niger-Congo (Kwa) language through the addition of a male source name and the female morpheme /-baa/. About three main kinds of family-names can be identified in Akan: (i) those usually given to females only, (ii) those gender-neutral, and (iii) those given to males but out of which female counterpart names can be derived. The current paper examines the third type and claims that even though different realizations of the female morpheme are observed, namely [-wa(a)], [-ma(a)], and [-a] to attach to the male source names, there is only one morpheme in the underlying presentation, that is, /-baa/, /-bea/, and /-ba/ for the Asante, Akuapem, and Fante dialects respectively, out of which these three variants are derived. This underlying morpheme manifests differently among the major dialects, which could be one of the points of distinction among them. To account for its different cross-dialectal realizations, it is shown in this paper that the underlying morpheme-initial consonant /-b/ specified for [+consonantal, +labial, −continuant] may acquire nasality at the surface level as in [-maa] through nasal place assimilation. The same consonant may lenite to labial glide [w] intervocalically and surfaces as [-waa]; or may even elide completely in the same context and be realized as [-a]; the underlying segment is systematically neutralized in the Asante dialect. In the Akuapem dialect, on the other hand, this underlying morpheme-initial segment is invariably fully preserved at the surface representation. The case of the Fante dialect resides in the middle of the continuum; i.e. it is non-systematic. The initial segment may or may not be preserved within the same contexts. Based on these observed variations it is concluded that while the other two dialects, especially the Akuapem, can preserve both the place and stricture features values of the underlying Adomako: Morphophonological Analysis of Akan Female Family-Name Formation 2 morpheme-initial /-b/ of the female morpheme, the Asante dialect only preserves the value for the former, and systematically neutralizes that of the latter. This observation is formalized within the Optimality Theory.

show abstract

Section: Reduction In the Female Morpheme -Baamentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Akan Naming Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Morphophonological Analysis of Akan Female Family-Name Formation

Adomako

2017

Ghana J. Ling.

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…There have been enormous research on names from the perspectives of sociolinguistics (e.g. Egbewogbe, 1977;Agyekum, 2006;Abdul, 2014;Mensah, 2015), sociocultural (see Ansu-Kyeremeh, 2000;Dakubu, 2000;Dominic, 2014), pragmatics (see Obeng, 1998;Batoma, 2009;, morphophonology (Adomako, 2015;2017), morphosemantics (Olenyo, 2011;Jauro, et al, 2013;Gerba, 2014;Agyekum, 2018;Awukuvi and Israel, 2018), and morphosyntactic (cf. Mensah and Offong 2013;Jindayu, 2013).…”

Section: Related Literature: a Cross-linguistic Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Yakub

2020

Indian J. Lang. Linguist.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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.

show abstract

“…Addressing the morphophonology of personal names was also the focus of many papers. It is reported that personal names, for example, undergo some morphophonological alternations at the phonetic level of the language (Adomako 2015). Much research has also been devoted to studying the semantics associated with names (e.g., Lawson 1985;Garayevaa , Akhmetzyanova and Khismatullinaa 2016 ).…”

Section: Name and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

An Investigation of Feminine Personal Names in Beni Sakhr Tribe of Jordan: A Sociolinguistic Study

Aljbour

Al-Haq²

2019

IJL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The research paper examined the feminine personal names within Beni Sakhr tribe, which inhabits the Jordanian central desert with the aim of pointing out the sociolinguistic implications of the names, and the differences in naming practices throughout three generations (grandmothers, mothers. daughters). For this reason, 300 names of female school students in the elementary stage were obtained from Almwaqqar Directorate of Education alongside their mothers and grandmothers. Analysis of a total number of 900 names, divided equally between the three categories, revealed that 69 % of the grandmothers' names are Bedouin-exclusive names opposed to (9%) and only (2%) of the mothers and daughters’ names respectively. Grandmothers’ names derive mainly from the needs of the dwellers of desert regions, the severe conditions they experienced, and the social values of the Jordanian nomadic tribes. Only 9 (3%) names of a religious background are identified in this category compared to 42 (14%) in the mothers’ names and 25 (8.3%) in the daughters’ names. In general, the paper finds evidence to suggest that the change in the lifestyle of Beni Sakhr tribe does influence the naming practice in this community.

show abstract

Truncation of SOme Akan Personal Names

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Morphophonological Analysis of Akan Female Family-Name Formation

Morphophonological Analysis of Akan Female Family-Name Formation

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

An Investigation of Feminine Personal Names in Beni Sakhr Tribe of Jordan: A Sociolinguistic Study

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About