@phdthesis{135255,
  author           = {Adewole, Stephen Monday},
  pages            = {xii+202},
  school           = {University of California at Los Angeles},
  title            = {Yoruba Word Formation Processes},
  year             = {1995},
  abstract         = {This work describes the major processes of word formation in Yoruba, a Kwa language of Western Nigeria. Three morphological processes-affixation, compounding and reduplication are identified as the key operations for the formation of most words in the language. The central claim around which the study develops is that Yoruba words are formed by certain morphological principles which define the internal structure of such words. By the application of such principles, words get their syntactic as well as semantic features which precede phonological rules of adjustment. An analysis of the formal aspects of affixation is presented thus showing a detailed list of all the prefixes that are involved. The lexical properties thereby established are considered with the functional relations between derived words and their stems to set up criteria that may be used in the determination of morphological classes in Yoruba. The internal structure analysis of the stems shows that prefixes may attach to categories of higher grammatical status than the word (phrases) to produce words at the end of the derivation. Compounding is described in the second part as the process whereby many Yoruba nouns are formed either from the combination of two or three basic nouns or a basic noun and another one derived from a verbal base. Tone alteration and vowel deletion criteria are discussed as possible means of contrasting compound nouns and genitive phrases. Reduplication, the third formal type in Yoruba word formation is described in a way that shows the crucial need to consider suprasegmental features to better account for all the major categories in the class. Syntactic as well as semantic properties of the process are also considered. The attempt to describe what goes on in the lexicon in Yoruba is developed in an interdisciplinary framework which pays more attention to interactional aspects of the phonological, syntactic and semantic components than any other work on Yoruba morphology thereby providing evidence for a richer, more comprehensive account of word formation in the language.},
  adviser          = {Schuh, Russell G.},
  bestfn           = {africa\adewole_yoruba-word1995_o.pdf},
  besttxt          = {ptxt\africa\adewole_processes1995.txt},
  cfn              = {africa\adewole_yoruba-word1995_o.pdf},
  degree           = {PhD},
  delivered        = {africa\adewole_yoruba-word1995_o.pdf},
  digital_formats  = {PDF 4.19Mb image-only PDF},
  fn               = {africa\adewole_processes1995.pdf, africa\adewole_processes1995_o.pdf, africa\adewole_yoruba-word1995_o.pdf},
  hhtype           = {specific_feature},
  inlg             = {English [eng]},
  keywords         = {;waf;nga;lng;grm;smn;t.911;ths;},
  lgcode           = {Yoruba [yor]},
  macro_area       = {Africa},
  oclc             = {34742006},
  source           = {DAI-A 56/10, p. 3934, Apr 1996},
  src              = {eballiso2009, hh, weball},
  subject          = {LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS (0290)},
  subject_headings = {waf, nga, lng, grm, smn, t.911, ths},
  umi_id           = {9604581}
}