A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MORPHOLOGICALLY CONSTRUCTED AGENT NOUNS IN FRENCH AND YORUBA
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It is widely believed that a very large number of word forms in
many languages are traceable to the outputs of morphological processes
which broadly include affixation, compounding and reduplication. In this
paper, we carry out a comparative analysis of agent noun formation rules in
French and in Yoruba using Lexeme-Base Morphology model. Our findings
show that while French employs suffixation and compounding, Yoruba
makes use of prefixation and reduplication. The study also reveals that both
languages demonstrate similar phonological, syntactic and semantic traits relating
to the agent noun production.
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P Philology. Linguistics, PE English