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    GENITIVE CASE - MARKING IN BATONU
    (CENTREPOINT: A JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL INTEREST HUMANITIES EDITION, 1998) SANUSI, ISSA OLARONGBE
    This paper presents illuminating data from Batonu (a Gur (voltaic) language)) to show how genitive case' is overtly marked in the language. Efforts are made to describe, exemplify, and illustrate all the attested morphemic alternants of the genitive case-maker in the language. The phenomenon of homorganic nasal assimilation between the possessive marker and the initial consonant of a possessed noun, within a genitive phrase, is also discussed and exemplified. For .the purpose of comparison, the paper also examines genitive case-making in Yoruba - a language of the Kwa sub-group of the Niger-Congo family. The theoretical framework assumed for our analysis is that of the Government and Binding (GB) theory otherwise known as 'Principles and Parameters' theory, as developed in Chomsky (1981) and other subsequent relevant works.