Oro-Ise Yoruba

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The Yoruba Verb Phrase

Oro-ise

Ayo Bamgbose

Ayo Bamgbose (ed.) (1972), The Yoruba Verb Phrase; Papers of the Seminar on the Yoruba on the Yoruba Verb Phrase, Ibadan, 1-2 April, 1971. Ibadan, Nigeria: Ibadan University Press and Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. 196 pp.

Awon ise ti o wa lori oro-ise ni iwe yii da le lori. Ni isale yii ni a to atoka inu iwe naa ti o wa ni ede Geesi si.

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Preface . . . . . . . vii

CHAPTER

1. Introduction –Ayo Bamgbose . . . . . 1

2. What is a verb in Yoruba?-Ayo Bamgbose . . . 17

3. A touchstone for the verb in Yoruba

                             -Obafemi Kujore       .       .       .       .       .       .       61

4. The predicative adjective as a grammatical category in Yoruba-Adebisi Afolayan . . . 73

5. Predicative adjectives in Yoruba: a critique

  -Oladele Awobuluyi                               .       .       .       103

6. On the classification of Yoruba verbs -Oladele Awobuluyi . . . . . . 119

7. On the construction and semantic interpretation of auxiliary clusters in Yoruba -D. Olatunbosun Oke . . . . . 135

8. Some hackneyed aspects of the phonology of the

       Yoruba verb phrase-Olasope Oyelaran         .       .       163