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cheche + ba+  ra.
 
cheche + ba+  ra.
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bicycle  ride AGENTIVE MARKER.SG
 
bicycle  ride AGENTIVE MARKER.SG
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bicycle rider
 
bicycle rider
  
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O      ba        cheche.
 
O      ba        cheche.
3SG.SBJ ride-PAST bicle-OBJ  
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3SG.SBJ ride-PAST bicle-OBJ
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S/he rode a bicycle.
 
S/he rode a bicycle.
  

Latest revision as of 12:20, 4 November 2011

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I want to look at componding in Dagbani. I tried entering the data and sometimes I find it difficult segmenting the morphemes. For instance, chechebara can be segmented as

cheche + ba+ ra.

bicycle ride AGENTIVE MARKER.SG

bicycle rider

In a sentence like

O ba cheche.

3SG.SBJ ride-PAST bicle-OBJ

S/he rode a bicycle.

I can form a compound out of the VP 'cheche 'bicycle' and verb ba 'ride' later I add the agentive marker '-ra' to form chechebara' bicycle rider.

We also have NN compounds like

daabia 'trader' is consist of


da-a + bi-a market-SG child-SG trader


na-a + bi-a => nabia chief-SG child prince


We also have VV compounds


kpi + yi => kpiinyi die go out walking dead


Here the vowel in the compound is doubled and epenthetic nasal is inserted.