Prefixation in Mada
This paper is a preliminary report on an ongoing research on Màda, a minority indigenous Nigerian language spoken in Nasarawa, Kaduna and Plateau states of Nigeria. This present work undertakes a study of prefixation as an aspect of the morphology of Màda by examining the role of prefixes in the derivation of new words in the language. The motivation for this study stems from the fact that Màda has a reduced morphology with scanty literatures available for data-driven analysis in the langu...