Examining the morphological processes in the formation of Tupuri nominals
Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences, University of Doba, Chad.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2022, 15(02), 639–650
Publication history:
Received on 19 July 2022; revised on 25 August 2022; accepted on 27 August 2022
Abstract:
The current work examines the morphological processes that are observable in the formation of nominals in Tupuri, a Niger-Congo language spoken in the South West of Chad and in the North of the Republic of Cameroon. Structuralism was adopted as a theoretical approach in this paper. Forty (40) native speakers of ɓāŋlíŋ dialect, i.e. eight (8) from each of towns/villages Sere, Dawa, Mindaore, Lale, and Guwe were randomly selected to collect data based on a Swadesh words-list. The data revealed that the formation of nominals in Tupuri language is characterized by pre-fixation, suffixation, total reduplication, partial reduplication, total modification, and partial modification, which include subtraction and neutralization. Furthermore, compounding is another process that characterizes the formation of nouns in Tupuri language.
Keywords:
Morphological processes; Tupuri language; Nominal; Nominal formation
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