Ẹsọhẹ Mercy Ọmọrẹgbẹ
University of
Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
William
Ighasere Aigbedo
University of
Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
Abstract
A principal
aspect of a language analysis is the investigation of the structure of words
and their organization into the grammar of a language. A language satisfies the
communicative needs of the society and people using it when certain rules are
observed in the production of linguistic expressions. Lexical category is a
unit of classification of words in the grammar of a language and serves to
portray the unique configuration properties of certain words and word classes.
This paper surveys an aspect of word categorization in Ẹdo language (lexical
category) with special focus on the properties of the verb as a member of this
class. Illustrations will be provided in the paper to justify first of all the
dichotomy between different classes of words in the language (lexical vs
functional) and the place of the verb in the category of words known as
‘lexical’. The findings of the paper will show that the verb possesses rich
morphological, syntactic and semantic features that justify its inclusion in
the class of lexical class of words.
Keywords: grammatical
category, lexical category, verbs and morpho-semantics
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