Prosody Drives Structure: The Case of Compounds in Akan
This paper discusses compound constructions in Akan, which are mostly nouns. Compounding is generally explained as a morphosyntactic word-formation process and the resulting compound word is commonly described as a “new” linguistic unit (Haspelmath, 2002; Marfo, 2009). The paper focuses on Noun-Noun...
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| Language: | English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Issues in Language Studies |
| Online Access: | http://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/ILS/article/view/1630 |