Aspects of Farefari Compouding: The Syntactic Constructure of Farefari Personal Compound Names
Keywords:
Compound, constructure, syntactic, personal name, linguistic structures, FarefariAbstract
Compounding has received linguistic attention in Farefare language. The authors in [2, 6, 7, 8, 11, 18, 26, 30, 31] . However, the phenomenon was not studied extensively, especially the syntactic constructure of Farefari personal compound names. This paper discusses the syntactic relations that occur in some personal compound names in Farefari, The study analyzes and presents data using the Basic Linguistic Theory (BLT). This helped the researcher to find out whether the Farefari personal compound names are lexical words, phrases, or even sentences. The data also enabled the researcher to do a typological study of the Farefari compounds in order to ascertain the syntactic constructure of the Farefari personal compound names. The results of study revealed that most of the Farefari personal compound names are sentences made up of a subject-verb- object (CVC, CV etc). The findings therefore established that most of the Farefari compound personal names are not lexical words but phrases, sentences and therefore syntactic. This finding is very important not only to Farefari Language alone but to Mabia languages as well since they share the same linguistic characteristics. Based on the findings, The researcher recommends that future researchers investigating on farefari compound word may focus on verb-verb and adverb – adverb compounds.
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