Browsing by Author "Vitalis, Salem Chiahemba"

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    Inflection for Grammatical Gender in Tiv Names
    (Department of English, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2017-03-03) Akase, Tiav Thomas; Vitalis, Salem Chiahemba
    Gender is one of the grammatical categories that is rigidly maintained in many languages that use them. The use of gender in such languages depends on the semantic association ol the noun and other properties denoted by that noun. Such semantics associations include human, non-human, animate, inanimate, sex, colour, etc. This research is however, concerned with the gender of names which examines in details the grammatical gender of with particular reference to Tiv names. The research is motivated by the lact that many languages do have separate names for men and women, while other languages use regular inflections tor grammatical gender to indicate the gender of names. The work seeks to find out it the Tiv names use regular inflections for grammatical gender or any other means to indicate the gender of the names in the language. The findings ol the research show that three morphological forms are used to generate masculine and feminine names in Tiv. The morphological forms however, vary depending on the sex.
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    MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX OF TIV PERSONAL NAMES
    (Department of English, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2017-09-09) Akase, Tiav Thomas; Vitalis, Salem Chiahemba
    The morphology and syntax of Tiv personal names is something that most of us take completely for granted because we are so used to mentioning and understanding personal names in our mother tonguewithout any conscious effort to know the complex linguistic structure that underlies almost every name in the language. This work therefore, has identified some constituent Morphological and Syntactic components for a number of Tiv names to reveal their meanings. The work also, revealed that, Tiv personal names range from simple lexical items (words) to complex sentences which help to reflect the grammatical structure of Tiv language. This work examines how Tiv names are morphologically structured taking into consideration the morphological processes and operations that are involved and how such structures contribute to the organization of Tiv grammar.