The Syntax and Semantics of Yoruba Nominal Expressions {dotb}Ol{acute}adi{acute}ip{grave}{dotb}o Aj{acute}ib{acute}oy{grave}e.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aj{acute}ib{acute}oy{grave}e, {dotb}Ol{acute}adi{acute}ip{grave}{dotb}o Jacob, 1956- author.

Series:

Landmarks series ; 1.

Landmarks ; 1

Language:

English

Yoruba

Subjects (All):

Yoruba language--Syntax.

Yoruba language.

Yoruba language--Possessives.

Yoruba language--Noun phrase.

Yoruba language--Nominals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Edition:

[Revised edition].

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017

Summary:

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 Yor{grave}ub{acute}a 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 Yor{grave}ub{acute}a 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.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Yor{grave}ub{acute}a genitive constructions

3. ti-genitives as reduced relative clauses

4. Interpreting Yor{grave}ub{acute}a bare nouns

5. Marking specificity and salience in nominal expressions

6. Plural strategies in Yor{grave}ub{acute}a.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of British Columbia, 2005 titled Topics in Yor{grave}ub{acute}a nominal expressions.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-264) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789785420890

9785420892

OCLC:

973799549