Circumfixation: Interface of Morphology and Syntax in Igbo Derivational Morphology

Mbah, Boniface

doi:10.9790/0837-0560108

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“…-Nụ is regarded as a clitic in Igbo syntax (Emenanjo 1978, Mbah et al 2012. However, in this study it is observed that -nụ suffixes to verbs and functions to be the subject focus marker in the clause.…”

Section: -Nụ Subject Focus Markermentioning

confidence: 57%

The Morphosyntactic Coding of Focus Structure in Igbo

Agbo¹

2013

J. Univers. Lang.

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Cross-linguistic studies have ascertained that the information units within clause structure are systematically coded. These information units shape the information structure of the clause and focus structure is the term for it in the literature. Previous studies on Igbo focus structure centre exclusively on the syntactic derivation of the clause to determine the focus structure. Therefore, this study investigates how pragmatic considerations and morphological markings in the clause structure determine the various types of Igbo focus structure. The study adopts the Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) framework, which seeks out the relationship between referring expressions in a clause and the focus structure. RRG also has the advantage of formally projecting focus structure into the representation of clause structure. Four categorical types of focus structure occur in Igbo. These include, subject focus with the

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Section: -Nụ Subject Focus Markermentioning

confidence: 57%

The Morphosyntactic Coding of Focus Structure in Igbo

Agbo¹

2013

J. Univers. Lang.

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“…A circumfix is made up of a prefix and a suffix, and these latter two are simultaneously affixed to a base (Marušič 2003). Mbah (2012) argues that "circumfixation is a process in which discontinuous affixes comprising two dissimilar parts surround an otherwise free morpheme". Parts of a circumfix are different from each other, non-contiguous, and are simultaneously affixed to a free morpheme.…”

Section: Circumfixesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extended exponence in isiNdebele morphology

Ndlovu

Dube

2019

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This article discusses extended exponence and headedness in the context of isiNdebele morphology. An attempt will be made to distinguish extended exponence from circumfixes. Headedness will be discussed in general, and how it is expressed in extended exponence. The main submission in this article is that isiNdebele has derivational and inflectional extended exponents, and that extended exponents are predominantly left-handed in nature. This assumption is founded on the premise that the terminal affixes of extended exponents can be done away with in some contexts. The study also establishes that morphological heads can either be right members of a word or left members.

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Addressing the Challenges of Igbo Computational Morphological Studies Using Frequent Pattern-Based Induction

Iheanetu

Oha

2018

Transactions on Engineering Technologies

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Computational studies of Igbo language are constrained by non-availability of large electronic corpora of Igbo text, a prerequisite for data-driven morphological induction. Existing unsupervised models, which are frequent-segment based, do not sufficiently address non-concatenative morphology and cascaded affixation prevalent in Igbo morphology, as well achieving affix labelling. This study devised a data-driven model that could induce non-concatenative aspects of Igbo morphology, cascaded affixation and affix labelling using frequent pattern-based induction. Tenfold Cross Validation (TCV) test was used to validate the propositions using percentages. An average accuracy measure of 88% was returned for the developed model. Ten purposively selected Igbo first speakers also evaluated samples of 100 model-analysed words each and the mean accuracy score of 82% was recorded. We conclude that morphology induction can be realized with a modestly sized corpus, demonstrating that electronic corpora scarcity does not constrain computational morphology studies as it would other higher levels of linguistic analysis.

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Circumfixation: Interface of Morphology and Syntax in Igbo Derivational Morphology

Cited by 4 publications

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The Morphosyntactic Coding of Focus Structure in Igbo

The Morphosyntactic Coding of Focus Structure in Igbo

Extended exponence in isiNdebele morphology

Addressing the Challenges of Igbo Computational Morphological Studies Using Frequent Pattern-Based Induction

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