• Aspects Of Gunganchi Verb Phrase

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    • Specifier and complement represent grammatical functions or relations; they have a status similar to terms such as ‘subject’ or ‘object’. They are optional constituents for some phrases but obligatory for some others (Radford 2002:229).
           The Gunganchi phrase structure is as outlined below:
      CP → C’       specifier
      IP → I’         specifier
      NP → N’     specifier
      VP → V’      specifier
      AP → Adj    specifier
      PP → P        specifier
      Examples
      1.     denya       aba
      That          child
      NP
       NI             Spec
      N              denya
      aba  
                                              ‘denya aba’
      FIG 1.2.1
      2.     irea ikùnuà
      eat beans
      ‘ate beans’
      VP
      Spec                   VI
      V                  NP
            Irea                 Ikùnuà
      FIG 1.2.2
      3.     Lú     úkulù


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