A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MORPHOLOGICALLY CONSTRUCTED AGENT NOUNS IN FRENCH AND YORUBA
It is widely believed that a very large number of word forms in
many languages are traceable to the outputs of morphological processes
which broadly include affixation, compounding and reduplication. In this paper, we carry out a comparative analysis of agent noun formation rules in French and in Yoruba using Lexeme-Base Morphology model. Our findings show that while French employs...
Published at Acta Linguistica: Journal for Theoretical Linguistics
Volume Vol.7
Issue No. 2
Pages 15-27
Samuel Tuesday Owoeye
Owoeye Samuel Tuesday » Samuel Tuesday OWOEYE was formerly the Director of the Covenant University’s prestigious African Leadership Development Center (ALDC). He graduated with a second class upper division B.A. Degree in French from the University of Ilorin in 1996. After his National Service between 1997 and 1998, he went back to the same University for his Master Degree which he completed in 1999. Having worked... view full profile