A PROPOS DU STATUT AGENTIF DES SUFFIXES –ANT, -IER, -ISTE ET –OIR DU FRANCAIS
In French certain suffixes are considered susceptible to form agent nouns. However, there is no consensus among French language morphologists on the number of suffixes that can be used to construct agent nouns. In this article, we study the agentive status of four French suffixes: -ant, -ier, -iste, and –oir. Our theoretical framework is constructional morphology. We consider also the lexeme...
Published at Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies (JOLLS)
Volume Volume 5.
Issue June
Pages 231-240
Published in 2018
Samuel T. Owoeye, Eugenia, Abiodun-Eniayekan, Maryam Tar and Olukayode T. Babatunde
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