ASPECT OF ÌRÙN ÀKÓKÓ MORPHOLOGY
Abstract
Morphology as one of the fields in linguistics deals with words, their internal structure and how
they are formed. This research investigates the aspect of the morphology of Ìrùn dialect.
The research makes use of hierarchical analysis to analyze the structure of words in Ìrùn dialect.
400-word list was used to collect data on the dialect. The approach used for the data collection
was bilingual. It was bilingual approach in that, standard Yoruba served as an intermediate
language between the researcher and the informant.
The analysis of this work shows that the dialect feature free morpheme and bound morphemes.
And also, Ìrùn dialect attests prefixes and interfixes. The dialect makes use of some of the
morphological processes in forming new words. These processes include affixation,
compounding, reduplication and borrowing. The analysis of these processes was done with a
lexical approach.
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