Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

YOU 203 — Morphology of Yorùbá Language

YOU department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• identify word formation processes in the Yorùbá language
• give detailed and systematic description of the structure of the language
• explain in detail types of morphemes
• differentiate between free morpheme and bound morphemes
• describe the process of reduplication in Yorùbá language, and
• discuss affixation and compounding as morphological processes in Yorùbá language

Course contents

A morphological description of the language. Structure and forms of words. Morphemes. Identification and classification of morphemes. Types of morphemes: Free morphemes. Bound morphemes. Structures of morphemes. Syntactic functions of morphemes. Morphological processes. Affixation. Reduplication. Compounding.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study YOU 203.

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