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ABSTRACT
This study examines and describes the processes of compounding and reduplication in Yoruba, a language spoken in the western part of Nigeria. Compounding and reduplication are morphological processes which help in increasing the lexical items in the language. Data employed for this study were collected from five competent native speakers of the language and analyzed using the weak lexicalist hypothesis which argues that some words cannot be syntactically derived. Our findings however in this work is that compounding and reduplication exist in Yoruba. Also the headedness of a compound lexical item solely depends on where the meaning is derived while headedness cannot be ascertained with reduplicative formatives since both lexical items forming the derived form have similar features.
