Word Formation Strategies of Koring

Authors

  • Philip N. Anagbogu Department of Linguistics, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka

Abstract

Traditionally, affixation, word compounding and reduplication are recognised as the major processes associated with word formation in various languages (Marchand 1974:Kiparsky1983,Roeper and Siegal 1978). More recently, however, other processes such as diminutivization and augmentivization appear to be used to form words (cf,Hyman 2002) the present work which explores the processes as they apply to koring,spoken in Ebony state of Nigeria. More information on the language is available in Anagbogu 2003a, b, 2006. the research shows that

  • Prefixation and word adjunction are the only processesapplicable in koring word formation
  • The reduplicative process is synchronically dead in the language. It is concluded therefore that koring is not morphologically complex language.

 

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2006-06-15

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