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Madugu, Isaac S. "Complex verbs in Nupe and Yoruba." Studies in African Linguistics 16, no. 3 (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 in

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Ehineni, Taiwo O. "Construction schemas in Yoruba compounding: focus on personal names." Language in Africa 2, no. 2 (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 str

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Abimbola, Olabode. "The Status of Sì in Yoruba." Journal of Language and Education 3, no. 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 t

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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 (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.

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Soames, Scott, Gerald Gazdar, Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum, and Ivan Sag. "Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar." Philosophical Review 98, no. 4 (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 (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 (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 (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

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Ifaturoti, Adeboye Oluwaseun. "Краткий очерк типологических особенностей языка йоруба". Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, № 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

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