Plural strategies in Yoruba

This paper accounts for the strategies that Yorùbá adopts to mark plural. One way in which plural is marked syntactically is by certain plural words. The plural word can either interpret the noun as plural directly as in the case of àwọn and quantifying words such as púpọ̀ ‘many’ and méjì ‘two’; or...

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Main Author: Ọládiípọ̀ Ajiboye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 2010-06-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107283