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ABSTRACT
Causativity is a universal feature of the grammar of languages. It is also a fundamental category of human cognition. This work is based on the structure of Igbo names both a detail analysis of the words that constitute these sentences. It also account for the morpho-syntactic analysis of those personal names with causative interpretation and the socio-cultural implication surrounding name bestowal. Igbo personal names have causative morphemes in their lexical forms, these morphemes include: fúnà , me’, kwé, kwú and nà. They encode causative senses when affixed to nominal or clauses: The affixation of these morphemes to nominal or clauses produces ígbó personal names with causative interpretations and socio-cultural milieu. However, names without causative interpretations were sort out and analyzed to prove the names as a sentence.
This work proves that Igbo names are seen as sentences. This analysis gives both a native speaker and non-native speaker of the Igbo Language a description of the structure of Igbo names to an extent.
The transformational generative grammar is used as the theoretical frame work of this study, because these sentence names undergo some transformation processes. e.g. insertion.
The result of the analysis shows that working on Igbo names, we learn more about the grammar of the Igbo Language than we would of culture.
