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  • Language Family: Other Benue-Congo
  • Topic #1: Morphology
  • Topic #2: Syntax
Rv applicative in Rv applicative in Igbo

The rV affix is perhaps the most studied affix in the Igbo language. However, the studies are mainly based on its morphological characteristics.This paper studies the applicative from a syntactic perspective.In the available literature, the affix has been described as a benefactive, an applicative, a stative, an imperative, a perfective and a preposition marker. In performing the above functions, it sometimes appears as a suffix. This shift in morphological positions has made scholars describe it in different ways. This study therefore provides an alternative model of description for this affix. The approach adopted in the study is syntactic. It uses the structure to find out its thematic role in its various positions. Furthermore, after accounting for the thematic structure, it explains the change that results to the surface structure. It distinguishes where this affix functions as an inflectional affix from where it functions as a syntactic head. This character goes a long way in determining the kind of transformation that affects them and the order in which the transformation may apply. We believe that a syntactic model of analysis provides an alternative and hopefully, a better model of analysis.   

    L’affixe rV est peut-être l’affixe le plus étudié dans la langue igbo. Cependant, les études se sont surtout basées sur les caractéristiques morphologiques. Cet article étudie l’applicatif à partir d’une perspective syntaxique. Dans la littérature en cours, l’affixe a été décrit comme un bénéfactif, un applicatif, un statif, un impératif, un perfectif et un marqueur de préposition. Dans sa performance de ces fonctions, elle apparaît parfois de plusieurs manières. Cette étude tient à proposer un modèle alternatif de description pour cet affixe. L’approche adoptée dans l’étude est syntaxique. Elle utilise la structure pour trouver son rôle thématique dans ses différentes positions. En outre, après avoir rendu compte de la structure thématique, elle explique le changement qui donne lieu à la structure de surface. Elle arrive à distinguer où cet affixe fonctionne comme un affixe inflectionnel des positions où il fonctionne comme une tête syntaxique. Cette caractéristique aide à déterminer le type de transformation qui les affecte et l’ordre dans lequel la transformation peut s’appliquer. Nous croyons qu’un modèle syntaxique d’analyse fournit une alternative et, nous l’espérons, un meilleur modèle d’analyse.

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