| Abstrakt: |
Different criteria are used by scholars to identify the nouns of Yorùbá, a language spoken in southwestern Nigeria. However, complexities and difficulties resulting from these criteria differences have posed serious problems to corpus knowledge extraction useful for ontological annotations. Reconciling the differences with a simple model that dwells on a semantic load of the lexicon is a gap in Yorùbá language scholarship. This study extracts some selected controversial Yorùbá nouns from Awóbùlúyì (1978; 2013), using Qualia structure (QS) of Generative Lexicon - a model containing parameters that focus on the distributed nature of compositionality to analyse the lexical noun, proposed by Pustejovsky (1991a). The paper reveals that the manner nouns [kíákíá and wéréwéré (quickly)], and polymorphic nouns [mo (I), mi (me), o (you), ó (he/she), ìre̩ (you), ire̩ (him/her), wo̩ n (them)] items classified as a noun by Awóbùlúyì (1978; 2013) are inconsistent and/or incompatible with the QS used and therefore cannot be modeled as a noun, because they lack independently the qualia properties required of nouns. The study therefore concludes that simple descriptive analysis is efficient enough for ontological annotations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
