Original Articles

Phrasal morphology: the case of Yorùbá names

Published in: South African Journal of African Languages
Volume 17 , issue 4 , 1997 , pages: 115–119

DOI: 10.1080/02572117.1997.10587172

Author(s): Harrison Adéníyì Department of African Languages & Literatures, Nigeria

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show with evidence that Yorùbá names are not actually phrases or sentences as hitherto assumed but words. This is argued within the model proposed by Pulleyblank and Akinlabi (1988), that it is possible for ‘syntax to derive a word level (X°) category’.

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