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This work is centered on showing the morphosemantic relationship that exists in agentive nominalizations. It shows the interplay between semantics and morphology with the use of the Lexeme-Based Morphology framework in which the smallest unit of a word is a lexeme. This framework examines how base lexemes which can be nouns or verbs are transformed into agentive nominals which depicits an individual being the doer of an action. The data used for this research work were secondary sources which are from past works of this topic. The findings of this work indicated that most Yoruba agentive nominalizations are usuallyformed through prefixation and a few are formed through reduplication. The prefix “oni-” was used in the derivation of agentive nominals. The semantic interpretation of agentive nominals showed that these derived nouns are divided into occupational, status, habitual and legal roles as a semantic field. It was also noted that the thematic role for these derived forms are Agents which means that each of them are the ones who performs an action. The findings of this research work bring to limelight the morphosemantic relationship that exists in the derivation of agentive nominals
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