TITLE:
A Descriptive and Syntactic Analysis of Àhàn Pronouns
AUTHORS:
Timothy Adeyemi Akanbi
KEYWORDS:
Pronoun, Environment, Person, Tense
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Modern Linguistics,
Vol.4 No.5,
December
9,
2014
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.