Inflection for Grammatical Gender in Tiv Names

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.