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Investigating Morphosyntactic Patterns and Metaphorical Interpretation of Compound Words in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself: A Construction Morphology Approach

As a word formation process, compounding is essential to poetry because it enriches the poetic language, making it more compressed, concise, metaphorically dense, and effective. The article aims to investigate the morphosyntactic and metaphorical aspects of the compound words employed by the American poet Walt Whitman...

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A Contrastive Analysis of Inflectional Morphemes in English and Igbo

This research investigates inflectional morphemes in English and Igbo, aiming to identify their forms, functions, similarities, and differences. Contrastive Analysis and Morphological Theory are employed as frameworks to explain how both languages express grammatical categories. The findings indicate that English prima...

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A comparative analysis of the morphological functions of Clitic Morphemes in Kazakh and English Word Formation

This paper applies a comparative and corpus-based approach to examine the morphological functions of clitic morphemes in two unrelated languages: Kazakh and English. Clitics lack full phonological autonomy and occupy an intermediate position between independent words and bound morphemes, playing a significant role  in...

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A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters

This study presents a detailed morphological and syntactic analysis of Wole Soyinka’s novel, The Interpreters, (1965). Recognized for his complex narrative style and linguistic experimentation, Soyinka employs a sophisticated blend of morphology and syntax that challenges conventional norms of English usage. The resear...

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Encoding paremias as sets of proverbial markers: a computational study on Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis

Abstract The goal of this work is to analyse the paremias contained in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis (CT) through qualitative, quantitative, and computational points of view to identify measures of their degree of proverbiality. We explore a typology of proverbial markers, including sentences and phrases, syntax and st...

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INVESTIGATING ASPECTS OF PREFIXATION IN ENGLISH AND IGBO LANGUAGES

Prefixation is a morphological process which studies how morphemes are affixed in the beginning of their host words for either grammatical functions or for lexical expansion and derivation. This paper investigates aspects of the grammar of prefixation in English and Igbo Languages. It adopts a comparative theoretical f...

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