Ifeoma Udoye and Ofoegbu Cyril

Department of English

Anambra State University, Uli, Nigeria

i.udoye@yahoo.com ; ofoegbucyril@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

This investigation focuses on Awka personal names. It tries to make morphological analysis to find out rules involved in name formation. We focused on names belonging to Almighty God ‘chukwu’. Despite many works in Igbo culture and language, this field of morphological study has never been looked at within the framework of Awka hence the need for this study. Findings show that generally Awka names in relation to ‘Chukwu’ are highly productive except in some cases. The paper also suggests a further research in other aspects of Awka anthroponyms.