Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

YOU 403 — Issues in Yorùbá Syntax

YOU department course · Nigerian universities

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

• explain the current and relevant issues in the syntax of the Yorùbá language
• explain lexical and phrasal categories
• describe tense and aspects in the Yorùbá language
• give examples of ideophones in the language
• identify relevant theories of grammar, and
• appreciate and analyse the set of rules, processes that govern the sentence structure in the Yoruba language

Course contents

Relevant issues in the syntax of the Yorùbá language. Current issues in Yorùbá grammar. Lexical and phrasal categories. Tense. Aspects. Vowel and their relationships. Ideophones. Arts 661 New Pronominalization. Relativisation. Reflexivisation. Nominalisation. Focus constructions. Logophoric constructions. Adjectives as verbs.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study YOU 403.

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