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Title:Nominal compound formation in Yoruba ideophones
Author:Awoyale, Yiwola
Year:1981
Periodical:Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
Volume:3
Issue:2
Pages:139-157
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subject:Yoruba language
Abstract:Significant linguistic generalisations are being missed as a result of the claim that the ideophone in Yoruba is basically either an adverb, or a noun, rather than being a distinct lexical category on its own. In fact the same nominal compound formation rules that apply to verb phrases also apply to predicative ideophones; therefore predicative ideophones show a clear similarity to verbals in this respect. Notes, ref.
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