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  • Language Family: Other Benue-Congo
  • Topic #1: Morphology
  • Topic #2: Nominals
Compounding in Ur Compounding in Urhobo

Compounding involves a concatenation of words. In the literaature, compounding is sometimes analysed as a syntactic process, a morphological process,or both. This is because the processes that produce compounds are said to be morphological and syntactic.The current study focuses on a description of some of the morphological factors involved in compounding in Urhobo. Data was gathered from existing literature on Urhobo language studies and native speaker’s competence. It was observed that Urhobo has both headed and headless compounds. An instance of double-headed compound was also observed. Though the heads of Urhobo compounds are left branching, there are instances where the heads are right branching. Pronominal affixes were found to head some Urhobo compounds. There are many examples of headed compounds; however, headless compounding seems to be more productive in the language. These headless compounds range from lexicalized phrases and sentences to coordinate and copulative compounds. The use of complete and partial reduplication of some words result into repititive rhyme-based compounds in Urhobo. Different kinds of compounds are used in different kinds of discourse.

   Le processus de composition implique une concaténation de mots. Dans la littérature, la composition est parfois analysée comme un processus syntaxique, un processus morphologique, ou les deux.  La raison tient à ce que les processus qui donnent lieu aux mots composés sont considérés comme morphologiques et syntaxiques. La présente étude focalise sur la description de certains facteurs morphologiques impliqués dans la composition en urhobo. Les données ont été collectées à partir de la littérature existante sur des études de la langue urhobo et de notre compétence en tant que locuteur natif de la langue. Il ressort que la langue urhobo a des mots composés dont un des mots est la tête ou alors aucun des mots ne peut être considérée comme tête. Il y a aussi le cas des mots composés à tête double. Un cas d’un mot compose à double tête a été répéré dans nos données. Bien que les têtes des mots composés urhobo se branchent à gauche, il y en a dont les têtes se branchent à droite. On trouve des affixes pronominaux à la tête de certains mots composés. Il y a de nombreux exemples de mots composés avec tête ;cependant, la composition sans tête semble plus productive dans la langue. Ces mots composés sans tête incluent des syntagmes lexicalisés et des phrases ainsi que des mots composés de coordination et des copulatifs. L’usage de la réduplication complète et partielle de certains mots donne lieu à des mots composés basés sur une rime répétitive en urhobo. Différents types de mots composés sont utilisés dans différents types d’énoncés.

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Created 2015-Nov-13
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Created by Hasiyatu Abubakari
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