Linguistic formation patterns of anglicised traditional Yoruba anthroponyms
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- Date
- 2020-01-01
- Language
- English
- Media Type
- research article
- Pages
- 282-292
- Keywords
- Epenthesis, Diacritics, YES, WR, 2021/09/14, NX@, P12312, Anglicised Yoruba anthroponyms, Consonant clustering, Diacritic removal, Paragroge, Prothesis, 7781
- Author(s)
- Eze, A.N., Aboh, S.C., Eze, D.E.
- Publication Title
- Southern African linguistics and applied language studies
- Volume
- 38
- ISSN
- 1607-3614
- Description
- Explores linguistic formation patterns of anglicised traditional Yoruba anthroponyms. Adopts the descriptive research design and analyses 50 samples of anglicised Yoruba anthroponyms by drawing insights from the concepts of insertion or epenthesis, consonant clustering and diacritic removal in phonology. Findings reveals that prothesis, paragoge, consonant clustering and removal of diacritics are the linguistic formation in the anglicised Yoruba traditional anthroponyms.
- Subject
- LINGUISTICS