Adéwọlé, L O2016-06-212016-06-212000-01Adéwọlé, L. O. (2000). Head in Yorùbá derived nouns. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 22(Winter), 147-160.2371-2643http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51443L O Adéwọlé, Obáfé̩mi Awólọ́wò̩ UniversityStudies on Yorùbá have typically ignored or undervalued the place of word structure within a generative grammar. This neglect has a far reaching effect on the study of the language first, because words are the basic units in the description of any language and second, because the Yorùbá word structure offers a microcosm of some of the descriptive problems of sentences in the language. In this paper, therefore, we shall take a critical look at the notion, head, in the Yorùbá morphology within a variant of the Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG henceforth) developed by Cann (1986).enLinguisticsYoruba languageSyntaxMorphologyjournal article10.11575/PRISM/28957