Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

YOU 303 — Syntax of Yorùbá Language II

YOU department course · Nigerian universities

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

• identify the major sentence types in the language
• analyse sentence structure of the language within the transformational - generative theory
• classify the major sentence types in Yorùbá language
• explain splitting verb sentences and echoing verb sentences
• construct declarative sentences and analyse them
• construct logophoric sentences in Yorùbá language, and

Course contents

Application of the transformational-generative theory to the analysis of the sentences of the Yorùbá language. Major sentence types in the language: declarative, interrogative. Imperative. Serial verb sentence. Splitting verb sentences. Verb sentences. Echoing verb sentences. Sentences with impersonal verbs.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study YOU 303.

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