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Madugu, Isaac S. "Complex verbs in Nupe and Yoruba." Studies in African Linguistics 16, no. 3 (December 1, 1985): 295–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v16i3.107499.

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This paper examines the structural behaviour of various types of complex verbs in Nupe and Yoruba in relation to causative constructions. When such verbs occur in simplex non-agentive causative sentences as well as in agentive non-causative sentences, they freely permit sentence embedding, resulting in biclausal causative structures. But in the case of non-agentive causatives, it is only Yoruba which allows the verbs to be irregularly embedded into causative matrix sentences in such a way that the biclausal causative structure constitutes input to Causative Clause Union, which compresses it into a uniclausal agentive causative sentence. Functionally, Yoruba uniclausal and biclausal agentive causatives are intercharigeable in many cases. On the other hand, only uniclausal agentive causatives are attested in Nupe, as Causative Clause Union has disappeared from its grammar. It is concluded that causative constructions in these languages demonstrate clearly that the CCU rule is motivated by a diachronic process of moving from a pragmatic mode of expression to a syntacticized one, and where a particular target has been hit, the rule ceases to function.

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Ehineni, Taiwo O. "Construction schemas in Yoruba compounding: focus on personal names." Language in Africa 2, no. 2 (July 30, 2021): 66–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2686-8946-2021-2-2-66-82.

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Compounding is a common word-formation process in Yoruba which is instantiated by different compound structures and types. However, in Yoruba personal names, compounds may exhibit significant formal and semantic properties that reflect certain constructional schemas in grammar. Hence, using the framework of construction morphology, this paper examines various schemas in Yoruba compound personal names and the internal features of these schemas. Based on data collected from personal interviews and native speaker intuition, I show that Yoruba personal names are constructions involving complex structural schemas which constitute a form-meaning pair where there are internal features that are not only semantic but syntactic and phonological. Furthermore, the paper reveals that several compound patterns may occur in Yoruba names including N-N, N-V, V-N, N-A and N-Av and that phonological processes in these schemas may be unique to the name constructions.

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Abimbola, Olabode. "The Status of Sì in Yoruba." Journal of Language and Education 3, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2411-7390-2017-3-1-58-66.

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This paper examines the syntax of sentential conjunction in the Yoruba language with the view of ascertaining the actual syntactic function of sì on which opinions have been polarized in the syntax of Yoruba grammar. This paper argues that the Yoruba language has a sentential/clausal conjunction element but its structural position is not the between the two clauses. The researcher conducted a series of structured interviews and also consulted existing works targeting the sì in compound clauses so as to generate the data for the research. The research adopts the Minimalist Program (MP) as its theoretical tool for the analyses presented in the article. MP views syntactic derivations as resulting from computational systems whose operations are based on operation Select and operation Merge. Syntactic structures are built in a par-wise fashion from bottom to top by putting two items together at a time. The research shows that there are three different sì in Yoruba occurring in seemingly similar environment but they are performing different syntactic functions. One sì denotes “emphasis” as a preverbal element; the second one denotes “consecutiveness of action” while the third one performs the function of sentential/clausal conjunction, an overt realization of the in the second clause. The overtly marked sentential/clausal conjunction also has a variant, which is an abstract realization between the two conjoined clauses.

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Olatunji, Ezekiel Kolawole, John B. Oladosu, Odetunji A. Odejobi, and Stephen O. Olabiyisi. "Design and implementation of an African native language-based programming language." International Journal of Advances in Applied Sciences 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijaas.v10.i2.pp171-177.

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<p>Most of the existing high level programming languages havehitherto borrowed their lexical items from human languages including European and Asian languages. However, there is paucity of research information on programming languages developed with the lexicons of an African indigenous language. This research explored the design and implementation of an African indigenous language-based programming language using Yoruba as case study. Yoruba is the first language of over 30 million people in the south-west of Nigeria, Africa; and is spoken by over one hundred million people world-wide. It is hoped, as established by research studies, that making computer programming possible in one’s mother tongue will enhance computer-based problem-solving processes by indigenous learners and teachers. The alphabets and reserved words of the programming language were respectively formed from the basic Yoruba alphabets and standard Yoruba words. The lexical items and syntactic structures of the programming language were designed with appropriate regular expressions and context-free grammars, using Backus-Naur Form (BNF) notations. A prototype implementation of the programming language was carried out as a source-to-source, 5-pass compiler. QBasic within QB64 IDE was the implementation language. The results from implementation showed functional correctness and effectiveness of the developed programming language. Thus lexical items of a programming language need not be borrowed exclusively from European and Asian languages, they can and should be borrowed from most African native languages. Furthermore, the developed native language programming language can be used to introduce computer programming to indigenous pupils of primary and junior secondary schools.</p>

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Soames, Scott, Gerald Gazdar, Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum, and Ivan Sag. "Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar." Philosophical Review 98, no. 4 (October 1989): 556. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2185122.

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Muslimin, Rizal. "Interweaving Grammar: Reconfiguring Vernacular Structure through Parametric Shape Grammar." International Journal of Architectural Computing 8, no. 2 (September 2010): 93–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/1478-0771.8.2.93.

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Orie, Ọlanikẹ Ọla. "The Structure and Function of Yoruba Facial Scarification." Anthropological Linguistics 53, no. 1 (2011): 15–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anl.2011.0000.

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Babarinde, Olusanmi. "Linguistic analysis of the structure of Yoruba numerals." Language Matters 45, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 127–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2013.857362.

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Müller, Stefan. "Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Sign-Based Construction Grammar, and Fluid Construction Grammar." Constructions and Frames 9, no. 1 (October 20, 2017): 139–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cf.9.1.05mul.

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Abstract Van Trijp (2013, 2014) claims that Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG) and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) are fundamentally different from Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). He claims that the former approaches are generative ones while the latter is a cognitive-functional one. I argue that it is not legitimate to draw these distinctions on the basis of what is done in FCG. Van Trijp claims that there are differences in the scientific model, the linguistic approach, formalization, the way constructions are seen, and in terms of processing. This paper discusses all these alleged differences. Van Trijp also claims that his cognitive-functional approach is superior in terms of completeness, explanatory adequacy, and theoretical parsimony. In order to facilitate a discussion and comparison, I introduce the reader to basic assumptions made in FCG and the analyses suggested by Van Trijp: I first deal with the representations that are used in FCG, talk about argument structure constructions, the combination operations fusion and merging that are used in FCG, I than discuss the analysis of nonlocal dependencies and show that the suggested FCG analysis is not explanatorily adequate since it is not descriptively adequate and that a full formalization of approaches with discontinuous constituents is not more parsimonious than existing HPSG analyses either. After the discussion of specific analyses, I then provide a detailed comparison of FCG and SBCG/HPSG and discuss questions like the competence/performance distinction, mathematical formalization vs. computer implementation, fuzziness and fluidity in grammars, and permissiveness of theories. I conclude that HPSG, SBCG, and FCG belong to the same family of theories and that all claims to the contrary are unjustified.

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Ifaturoti, Adeboye Oluwaseun. "Краткий очерк типологических особенностей языка йоруба." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, no. 7 (2021): 74–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2410-7190_2021_7_1_74_85.

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The article presents materials on the phonetic and grammatical structure of Yoruba – one of the most widely spoken languages of West Africa, which, along with its literary form, exists in many dialectical variants. Using examples selected from modern normative speech usage, the author – a native speaker of the Standard Yoruba – demonstrates the ways of expressing semantic content, various grammatical meanings and categories in the Yoruba language, whose structure has significant differences from known modern analytical (English, French) and synthetic (Russian) languages of Europe. The results of the study show that, first, lexical meanings in Yoruba language can be differentiated by changing tone pitch; second, reduplication and agglutination are vital to the process of word formation; third, the categories of verb tense, definiteness / indeterminacy, comparative and superlative adjectives are expressed by lexical means; finally, syntactic constructions due to the non-inflectional nature of words in Yoruba, as in European analytical languages, are constructed according to a fixed model.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Grammar structure of Yoruba"

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Adéwọlé, Lawrence Olufemi. "The categorial status and the functions of the Yoruba auxiliary verbs with some structural analyses in GPSG." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25364.

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Kobele, Gregory Michael. "Generating copies an investigation into structural identity in language and grammar /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1273094861&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Oladipo, R. M. "Anaphora in Yoruba." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.482923.

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Morrill, Glyn Verden. "Extraction and coordination in phrase structure grammar and categorial grammar." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6609.

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A large proportion of computationally-oriented theories of grammar operate within the confines of monostratality (i.e. there is only one level of syntactic analysis), compositionality (i.e. the meaning of an expression is determined by the meanings of its syntactic parts, plus their manner of combination), and adjacency (i.e. the only operation on terminal strings is concatenation). This thesis looks at two major approaches falling within these bounds: that based on phrase structure grammar (e.g. Gazdar), and that based on categorial grammar (e.g. Steedman). The theories are examined with reference to extraction and coordination constructions; crucially a range of 'compound' extraction and coordination phenomena are brought to bear. It is argued that the early phrase structure grammar metarules can characterise operations generating compound phenomena, but in so doing require a categorial-like category system. It is also argued that while categorial grammar contains an adequate category apparatus, Steedman's primitives such as composition do not extend to cover the full range of data. A theory is therefore presented integrating the approaches of Gazdar and Steedman. The central issue as regards processing is derivational equivalence: the grammars under consideration typically generate many semantically equivalent derivations of an expression. This problem is addressed by showing how to axiomatise derivational equivalence, and a parser is presented which employs the axiomatisation to avoid following equivalent paths.

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Lüpke, Friederike. "A grammar of Jalonke argument structure /." Nijmegen : Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2005. http://webdoc.ubn.ru.nl/mono/l/luepke_f/gramofjaa.pdf.

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Gao, Quian E. "Argument Structure, HPSG, and Chinese Grammar." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391590058.

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Gao, Qian. "Argument structure, HPSG, and Chinese grammar /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488204276532252.

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Barry, Guy David. "Derivation and structure in categorial grammar." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19938.

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Flynn, Michael J. "Structure building operations and word order." New York : Garland Pub, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/12285682.html.

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Miller, Philip H. "Clitics and constituents in phrase structure grammar /." New York ; London : Garland, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37747868w.

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Books on the topic "Grammar structure of Yoruba"

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Rowlands, E. C. Yoruba. Lincolnwood, Ill., U.S.A: NTC Pub. Group, 1993.

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Rowlands, E. C. Yoruba. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.

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Fashagba, Joseph Ajayi. New Yoruba: Grammar standard textbook. Toronto, Ont., Canada: Fash-Enterprise Books, 1987.

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Fashagba, Joseph Ajayi. New Yoruba: Grammar standard textbook. 2nd ed. [S.l.]: J.A. Fashagba, 1991.

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Adéṣuyì, V. A. Yoruba language science. Ile-Ife [Nigeria]: Eternal Communications, 1998.

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Yusuf, Ore. Girama Yoruba akọtun: Ni ilana iṣipaya onidarọ. Ilorin, Nigeria: OBVEN Publishers, 1995.

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Modern phrase structure grammar. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1996.

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Gunji, Takao. Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7766-3.

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Brandt, Patrick, and Eric Fuß, eds. Form, Structure, and Grammar. Berlin: AKADEMIE VERLAG, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1524/9783050085555.

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Ayoh'Omidire, Félix. Akọ̀gbádùn: ABC da língua, cultura e civilização iorubanas. [Salvador, Brazil]: EDUFBA, 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "Grammar structure of Yoruba"

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Collins, Peter, and Carmella Hollo. "Clause Structure and Clause Type." In English Grammar, 108–30. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50740-2_6.

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Collins, Peter, and Carmella Hollo. "Information Structure in the Clause." In English Grammar, 160–76. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50740-2_8.

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Collins, Peter, and Carmella Hollo. "Clause Structure and Clause Type." In English Grammar, 101–22. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-36576-6_6.

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Collins, Peter, and Carmella Hollo. "Information Structure in the Clause." In English Grammar, 151–66. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-36576-6_8.

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Lambek, J. "The mathematics of sentence structure." In Categorial Grammar, 153. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/llsee.25.12lam.

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Gundel, Jeanette K., and Thorstein Fretheim. "Information structure." In Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, 146–60. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hoph.5.09gun.

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De Santo, Aniello, and Thomas Graf. "Structure Sensitive Tier Projection: Applications and Formal Properties." In Formal Grammar, 35–50. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59648-7_3.

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Longacre, Robert E. "Surface Structure of Clauses." In The Grammar of Discourse, 219–68. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0162-0_9.

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van Schooneveld, Cornelis H. "Praguean structure and autopoiesis." In New Vistas in Grammar, 341. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cilt.49.22sch.

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Gunji, Takao. "Introduction." In Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar, 1–4. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7766-3_1.

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Conference papers on the topic "Grammar structure of Yoruba"

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Ristad, Eric Sven. "Revised generalized phrase structure grammar." In the 25th annual meeting. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/981175.981209.

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Ahrenberg, Lars. "A grammar combining phrase structure and field structure." In the 13th conference. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/997939.997940.

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Islam, Md Asfaqul, K. M. Azharul Hasan, and Md Mizanur Rahman. "Basic HPSG structure for Bangla grammar." In 2012 15th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccitechn.2012.6509749.

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Kruijff, Geert-Jan, and Denys Duchier. "Information structure in topological dependency grammar." In the tenth conference. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1067807.1067837.

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Proudian, Derek, and Carl Pollard. "Parsing Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar." In the 23rd annual meeting. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/981210.981231.

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Wei, Tang, Lai Jun, He Yihui, and Ye Xuguang. "Research on grammar structure-based tactic recognition." In 2012 IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/csae.2012.6272817.

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Matsunaga, Sho-ichi, and Masaki Kohda. "Linguistic processing using a dependency structure grammar." In the 12th conference. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/991635.991717.

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Henderson, James B. "A connectionist parser for Structure Unification Grammar." In the 30th annual meeting. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/981967.981986.

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Ramsay, Allan. "Effective parsing with generalised phrase structure grammar." In the second conference. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/976931.976939.

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Chobtham, Kiattikun, Athasit Surarerks, and Arnon Rungsawang. "Formalization of Link Farm Structure Using Graph Grammar." In 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (aina 2008). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/aina.2008.96.

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