A Morpho-Semantic Analysis of Igbo Compound Names

This paper examines compound names in the lgbo language using both morphological and semantic approaches. It focuses on aspects of the forms and meaning available in the compound names. It employs eclectic framework which is both structural and referential to cater for the analysis of the structure and meaning of the compound names in Igbo. The findings reveal that the Igbo language is fertile in realising compound name structures that initiate the combination of double or triple lexical combination which account for the different forms in the formation of such names. There is also a viable reliance on the circumstance in the environment that provides the semantic reference to the names.