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A Descriptive and Syntactic Analysis of Àhàn Pronouns
Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics·Volume 04 (2014)·Pages 664–675·Published 13 November 2014·DOI10.4236/ojml.2014.45057
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Abstract
This paper examines pronouns in Àhàn, a language spoken in the Southwest Nigeria, specifically in Òmùò-Èkìtì, Ekiti East Local Government Area. In this language, the tone born by a pronoun is conditioned by the environment where it occurs. In other words, a first person pronoun subject can be a high, mid or a low tone. We also observe that in this language, pronoun can change its morphological form when it occurs in a particular syntactic environment as against the other. We shall also show, in the paper that pronouns in Àhàn inflect for tense.
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