Volume 39, Issue 3, May 2023, Pages 1253–1259
Fokwa Ruth Eni-Enih1, Tangyie Evani2, Ngala Nadege3, and Annie Carelle Donji Teufack4
1 Department of African studies and Globalization, University of Dschang, Cameroon
2 Department of General Studies, Institute of Technology, Bandjoun, University of Dschang, Cameroon
3 Department of African studies and Globalization, University of Dschang, Cameroon
4 Department of African studies and Globalization, University of Dschang, Cameroon
Original language: English
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Language dynamics and structured community setup communication requires a close examination of how agreement and directionality of possessives are construed in main stream pragmatics. This paper investigates the types and distribution of possession markers in Metaꞌ, - a Grass-fields Bantu language of the Momo subgroup community in the North-West Region of Cameroon. It examines the nature of the Metaꞌ possessives or possession markers in general, with particular attention on its possessive determiners as portraying some complexity in structure and distribution. This situation leads us to question whether possessives in Metaꞌ are pre-modifiers or post modifiers to nouns and to further examine what accounts for the different positions occupied by possession markers in this language. The study further argues that the post-nominal position of possessive determiners is as a result of focus on the head noun and asserts that, the co-occurrence of two possessive determiners in Meta’ is as a result of emphases or the fact that they do not modify the same noun.
Author Keywords: Agreement, determiner, directionality, modifier, possessives, nominalizer.
Fokwa Ruth Eni-Enih1, Tangyie Evani2, Ngala Nadege3, and Annie Carelle Donji Teufack4
1 Department of African studies and Globalization, University of Dschang, Cameroon
2 Department of General Studies, Institute of Technology, Bandjoun, University of Dschang, Cameroon
3 Department of African studies and Globalization, University of Dschang, Cameroon
4 Department of African studies and Globalization, University of Dschang, Cameroon
Original language: English
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Language dynamics and structured community setup communication requires a close examination of how agreement and directionality of possessives are construed in main stream pragmatics. This paper investigates the types and distribution of possession markers in Metaꞌ, - a Grass-fields Bantu language of the Momo subgroup community in the North-West Region of Cameroon. It examines the nature of the Metaꞌ possessives or possession markers in general, with particular attention on its possessive determiners as portraying some complexity in structure and distribution. This situation leads us to question whether possessives in Metaꞌ are pre-modifiers or post modifiers to nouns and to further examine what accounts for the different positions occupied by possession markers in this language. The study further argues that the post-nominal position of possessive determiners is as a result of focus on the head noun and asserts that, the co-occurrence of two possessive determiners in Meta’ is as a result of emphases or the fact that they do not modify the same noun.
Author Keywords: Agreement, determiner, directionality, modifier, possessives, nominalizer.
How to Cite this Article
Fokwa Ruth Eni-Enih, Tangyie Evani, Ngala Nadege, and Annie Carelle Donji Teufack, “Agreement and directionality of possessives in the Metaꞌ Language,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 1253–1259, May 2023.
