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Scientific Journal of Literature, Language, Communication and Educational Sciences

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Title

TOWARD THE USE OF NUMERAL QUALIFIERS IN YORUBA: DISCOURSE IN IFÁ CORPORA, ÌBEJÌ, PROVERBS, INCANTATIONS AND COUNTING SYSTEMS

Author(s)

Oluwọle Tẹwọgboye Okewande
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Abstract

It is an established rule in literature that, qualifiers qualify nouns and always come after the nouns in the grammar of Yorùbá language. This is however contrary to numeral interactions with qualifiers around contexts of Ifá corpora, Ìbejì- twins compound names, proverbs, ọfọ̀- incantation and Yoruba counting systems. This study seeks to fill this gap. Relevant data relating to nominal quantifiers are carefully selected across various contexts, discourse and texts analyzed with empirical approach- a method that investigates a problem within its real life context through existing cases. It is stated that, like VO and OV languages, Yoruba nominal qualifiers operate NumN and NNum. The study concludes that, rules governing numeral qualifiers in Yoruba are unstable just as the language of Ifá is not static. Keywords: Ìbejì, Ifá, noun qualifier, numerals, proverbs

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ISSN : 2959-9407
Editeur : UFR Lettres et Arts
Université : UPGC 
Périodicité : Semestriel
Domaines : Lettres, Langues, Littératures, Communication et Sciences de l’Education