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  • Language Family: Kwa
  • Topic #1: Morphology
  • Topic #2: Nominals
The case against A-N compounding in The case against A-N compounding in Akan

This article questions the status of Adjectives-Noun nominal compounding ([A-N]N) in Akan. Although the A-N compounding is postulated, no single study offers more than three good examples at any time. This is interesting because compounding is very productive in Akan. Again, in all the putative examples, the adjectives bear prefixes that they do not have elsewhere in the grammar, except when they modify plural nouns. I argue that the prefixes nominalize the adjectives which then must occur as the left-hand nominal modifiers in N-N compounds which are predominantly right-headed in Akan. Real adjective constituents of nominal compounds occur on the right. Thus, the morphological make-up and distribution of the constituents of such compounds suggest that they may be better analyzed as N-N compounds with nominalized adjectives as left-hand constituents. However, we may not rule out the existence of A-N compounding in Akan yet, hoping that proponents may succeed, somehow, to adduce real evidence to justify their postulation.

Cet article remet en question le statut du nom composé formé de l’adjectif-nom ([A-N]N)  en akan. Bien que l’on postule l’ensemble A-N comme nom composé, il n’existe aucune étude qui ait étayé ce genre de nom composé avec plus de trois exemples. Ceci est intéressant dans la mesure où la composition en akan est hautement productive. Ici aussi, dans les exemples mentionnés, les adjectifs ont des préfixes qu’ils n’exhibent pas ailleurs dans la grammaire de la langue, sauf lorsqu’ils modifient les noms au pluriel. Il est proposé dans cet article que les préfixes nominalisent les adjectifs qui, à leur tout, doivent paraître à la droite. C’est ainsi que l’issue morphologique et la distribution des constituants de tels mots composés suggèrent qu’ils devraient être analysés comme des composés N-N avec des adjectifs nominalisés apparaissant comme constituants à leur gauche. Cependant, nous n’excluons pas nécessairement l’existence de composés A-N en akan, en espérant que ceux qui soutiennent leur existence  pourront un jour fournir des preuves convaincantes à ce sujet.

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