%0 Journal Article
%T A Descriptive and Syntactic Analysis of Àhàn Pronouns
%A Timothy Adeyemi Akanbi
%J Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
%P 664-675
%@ 2164-2834
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojml.2014.45057
%X This paper examines pronouns in Àh¨¤n, a language spoken in the
Southwest Nigeria, specifically in Òm¨´¨°-Èk¨¬t¨¬, Ekiti East Local
Government Area. In this language, the tone born by a pronoun is conditioned by
the environment where it occurs. In other words, a first person pronoun subject
can be a high, mid or a low tone. We also observe that in this language,
pronoun can change its morphological form when it occurs in a particular
syntactic environment as against the other. We shall also show, in the paper
that pronouns in Àh¨¤n inflect for tense.
%K Pronoun
%K Environment
%K Person
%K Tense
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52175