African linguistics

This project work attempts to investigate and describe the body-part terminology in Obosi. Over the last 150 years, Nigeria has benefited from a lot of linguistic attention, mainly in the area of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. As with many African languages however, investigation of semantic issues has remained behind. The present study focuses on body part as a semantic domain, providing first of all a detailed and illustrated overview of Obosi body-part terminologies. Furthermore, the study covers such areas as grammatical constructions for bodily actions and events, organizing principles of the domain, frame semantic theory was employed to discuss some of the meaning ascribed to most of the body-parts, and the body parts in the context of the Obosi conception. An overview of previous research into body-part terminology provides the necessary background to the more descriptive part