Some Yoruba quantifier words and semantic interpretation a reply to a critique

The empirical support for Adewole's critique of my paper (in this issue), "Some Yoruba quantifier words and semantic interpretation" [LawaI 1986], comes from a literary text Atoto Arere [Adewole p. 4]. Adewole's approach, which is characteristic of traditional or taxonomic lingui...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5b4317459f2c416f9f7a55935d7f7b7d2021-11-19T03:54:44ZSome Yoruba quantifier words and semantic interpretation a reply to a critique10.32473/sal.v20i1.1074540039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/5b4317459f2c416f9f7a55935d7f7b7d1989-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107454https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThe empirical support for Adewole's critique of my paper (in this issue), "Some Yoruba quantifier words and semantic interpretation" [LawaI 1986], comes from a literary text Atoto Arere [Adewole p. 4]. Adewole's approach, which is characteristic of traditional or taxonomic linguistics, has been found to be most unreliable in dealing with questions of empirical fact and is strongly rejected in present day linguistics. Our study of the semantic interpretation of some Yoruba quantifier words was based on native speaker judgements/tests, specifically Y oruba speakers in Horin township of Kwara State of Nigeria.Adenike S. LawalLibraryPress@UFarticleYorubaquantifierssemanticstaxonomyPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 20, Iss 1 (1989)
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topic Yoruba
quantifiers
semantics
taxonomy
Philology. Linguistics
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quantifiers
semantics
taxonomy
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Adenike S. Lawal
Some Yoruba quantifier words and semantic interpretation a reply to a critique
description The empirical support for Adewole's critique of my paper (in this issue), "Some Yoruba quantifier words and semantic interpretation" [LawaI 1986], comes from a literary text Atoto Arere [Adewole p. 4]. Adewole's approach, which is characteristic of traditional or taxonomic linguistics, has been found to be most unreliable in dealing with questions of empirical fact and is strongly rejected in present day linguistics. Our study of the semantic interpretation of some Yoruba quantifier words was based on native speaker judgements/tests, specifically Y oruba speakers in Horin township of Kwara State of Nigeria.
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