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Title:
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Aspects Theoriques de la Création Lexicale : Le cas du Bamileke
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Author:
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Moses Nyongwa
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Email:
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Homepage:
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http://www.lanci.uqam.ca
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Degree Awarded:
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Université du Québec à Montréal
, Department of Linguistics and the Didactics of Languages
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Degree Date:
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1995
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Language Documentation
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Subject Language(s):
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Yemba
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Director(s):
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Christine Tellier
Andre Dugas
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Abstract:
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This dissertation deals with Bamileke, a Bantu Tone language spoken in Cameroon, Central Africa. It's made up of six chapters:
- chapter 1: Theoretical framework (A critical summary of Morphology theories);
- chapter 1: The introduction of the Bamileke language (Morphology, Phonology);
- chapter 3: Affixation in Bamileke ( Interface between Morphology and Syntax);
- chapter 4: Compounding in Bamileke (Types of relations between different constituents of a compound : head-complement, head-modifier, apposition, etc.);
- chapter 5: Borrowing in Bamileke (Morphological, phonological integration of borrowed elements, interactions between local words and borrowed words, etc.);
- chapter 6: General conclusion.
Chapter 3, which is considered the core of this work because of the originality of the approach deals with the answer to the following question : Is affixation a morphological or a syntactical operation?
Some researchers say affixation is a morphological operation. Others say it is a syntactical operation. Data from Bamileke, a bantu language spoken in Cameroon, Central Africa, present a very peculiar behaviour as far as affixes are concerned. On one hand, there are some prefixes which, because of the nature of the elements they are attached to (NP, VP), allow us to analyse prefixation as a syntactic operation. On the other hand, suffixes are attached to heads of lexical phrases. This leads us to analyse suffixation as a morphological operation.
Evolving within the GB framework, our analysis takes into accounts two elements:
1) the reformulation of X-bar theory in the line of Lieber (1992) to allow recursivity below X0; and
2) the argument structure of affixes.
The introduction of the argument structure has allowed us to distinguish between what we have termed morphological affixes (that is affixes undergoing morphological operation) and syntactical affixes. Moreover, the notion of head in a complex item has been reviewed and redefined according to bamileke data.
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