The Syntax and Semantics of Yoruba Nominal Expressions

The Syntax and Semantics of Yoruba Nominal Expressions
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Publisher : African Books Collective
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9789785420890
ISBN-13 : 9785420892
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Download or read book The Syntax and Semantics of Yoruba Nominal Expressions written by Oladiipo Ajiboye and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures. This study is a departer from most previous work on Yoruba Grammar in the sense that rather than being purely a descriptive grammar; it attempts to provide a theoretical analysis of the internal and external syntax of Yoruba nominal expressions using the Chomskyan Principles and Parameters approach to syntax. This Generative theory attempts to characterize the grammar of all natural languages in terms of a set of universal principles that all languages share, and a set of parameters along which languages may vary. The book emphasizes the empirical motivation behind major theoretical proposals in that framework, and shows how views on the nature of universal grammar and cross-linguistic variation have developed over the years as a consequence of a massive increase in cross-linguistic syntactic research.


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