Journal of Studies in Language, Culture and Society (JSLCS)
Volume 3, Numéro 3, Pages 1-10
2021-01-12
A Morphological Approach To ɲԑ “eye”-compounds In Bamanankan
Authors : Coulibaly Issa .
Abstract
This paper explores the extent to which lexical compounds are formed from the head ɲԑ (eye) in Bamanankan, a major language spoken in Mali. The study is guided by Vydrine’s (1999) construct of the classification of parts of speech in Bamanankan. The corpus is composed of words extracted from the electronic version of the Inkey Bambara dictionary and casual conversations. The study reveals that the majority of ɲԑ-compounds are characterized as nouns out of which a large part is both noun and verb. This particular finding is in line with Dumestre (2011) that there is porosity among the Bamanankan parts of speech.
Keywords
Bamanankan, semantics, compound, lexical meaning, parts of speech, constituent
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