Morphosyntactic analysis of Asante’s family names
Keywords:
Akan, compounding, morphology, morphemes, syntaxAbstract
This paper sought to address family names among the Akan of Ghana and considers naming as an important aspect of the Akan society. It looks at Akan names within the preview of linguistics anthropology. The data were collected through interviews, questionnaires and documents from school register and electoral commission register. The descriptive method was used to analyse the data. The study shows that names are words that can generate morphological aspects such as compounding, affixation, nomination, reduplication as well as syntactic aspects such as sentences and phrases form from them. Names such as Asafo - Agyei, Frimpↄn Manso, Boatemaa are under the study of morphology aspect such as stem, compounding, affixation, reduplication, nomination.
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