Word-Based Hypothesis: Evidence from Hausa and Fulfulde Word Formation
Keywords:
Morphological Typology, Morphological Theory, Word Based Hypothesis, Word FormationAbstract
Hausa, the most important and best known Chadic language of Afro-asiatic (Newman 2009: 618) and Fulfulde, the most well-known language of West Atlantic of Niger Congo (Pulleyblank 2009: 858) are adjacent speech communities, genetically unrelated and are both found in Northern Nigeria and beyond. The paper is based on theoretical linguistic research which focuses on derivational morphology of Hausa and Fulfulde languages, using word-based hypothesis. The aim of the paper is to present Hausa and Fulfulde word formation to clarify the Aronoff’s (1976) notion on word-based hypothesis with the objectives of identifying the morphological typologies of each of the languages. The paper found out that language typology plays an important role on selection of morphological theory. Hence, Hausa and Fulfulde languages justify the claim about syntax and semantics of word formation more than a claim about affixation.
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