A Descriptive and Syntactic Analysis of Àhàn Pronouns ()
ABSTRACT
This paper examines pronouns in Àhàn, a language spoken in the
Southwest Nigeria, specifically in Òmùò-Èkìtì, Ekiti East Local
Government Area. In this language, the tone born by a pronoun is conditioned by
the environment where it occurs. In other words, a first person pronoun subject
can be a high, mid or a low tone. We also observe that in this language,
pronoun can change its morphological form when it occurs in a particular
syntactic environment as against the other. We shall also show, in the paper
that pronouns in Àhàn inflect for tense.
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Akanbi, T. (2014) A Descriptive and Syntactic Analysis of Àhàn Pronouns.
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics,
4, 664-675. doi:
10.4236/ojml.2014.45057.