Word formation: the Description of the Nyakyusa Derivation and Inflection

Robinson, Nichodamus

dc.creator	Robinson, Nichodamus
dc.date	2017-03-14T11:47:18Z
dc.date	2017-03-14T11:47:18Z
dc.date	2016-11
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-25T08:52:02Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-25T08:52:02Z
dc.identifier	2374-8850
dc.identifier	https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/1342
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/92104
dc.description	International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2016: 3 (5)
dc.description	This paper describes Nyakyusa, by examining the extent to which affixation is attested and making a distinction between inflection and derivation. Studies show that the distinction between them is not clear. There is a blurred distinction between derivation and inflection based on the morphology of the noun. The noun class prefixes are inflectional since they mark person and number contrast and the same prefixes are derivational since they derive new nouns with various degrees of semantic relationship to the original noun. Therefore, it seems to be difficult to draw a clear demarcation between derivational and inflectional affixes based on the morphology of noun in Nyakyusa. However, based on the morphology of the verb, several affixes can be analyzed as inflectional while others are derivational. The pre-root and some post-root affixes of the verb are inflectional since they mark tense/aspect and polarity while most post-root affixes in slot 7 are derivational.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Center for Promoting Ideas, USA
dc.subject	Nyakyusa
dc.subject	Derivation
dc.subject	Inflection
dc.subject	Noun Morphology
dc.subject	Verb Morphology
dc.title	Word formation: the Description of the Nyakyusa Derivation and Inflection
dc.type	Article