ABSTRACT
A morphological analysis is crucial for language structures and patterns to be understood. The

growing need for linguistic analysis has triggered a lot of research and analysis of natural

languages. Lamnsó Linguists are waking up to this call and this Research titled A Comparative

Morphological Analysis of Lamnsó and English Compound Words is one of such efforts. The

researcher was motivated by the fact that Lamnsó is still very understudied and underdeveloped.

Also the Lamnsó lexicon by Karl Grebe does not have compound words and this can make one

to feel that Lamnsó is void of compound words. In this regard, the compound words were

carefully put together by the researcher while at the same time describing and explaining the

morphological structures and patterns. This whole idea was geared towards realizing or coming

up with a systematic morphological data that could develop, document, and preserve the

language, and thus rescue it from dying out. This Lamnsó data is compared with that of the

English language to bring out similarities and differences. The English language data was

gathered from both primary and secondary sources while the lamnsó data is framed based on

Lamnsó that is spoken in Bui Division, in the North West Region of Cameroon. The

morphological analysis also incorporates syntactic, semantic, and Pragmatic elements. The

Lamnsó patterns and structures fit into the universal criteria and this has enabled a comparative

study of this magnitude to be successfully carried out on this two language systems. The English

compound types are endocentric, exocentric, copulative, and appositional while the Lamnsó

types are linked, composed, Juxtaposed, and the phrasal compounds. Lamnsó compound

realization involves the compounding of two lexemes which may or may not be independent and

also via reduplication. The Lamnsó orthography used in this work is taken from Grebe (2008).

This work has been able to identify, examine, classify, and analyse lamnsó compound words.

The study has established and proven the functions of the Lamnsó compounds as compound

nouns, compound verbs, compound adjectives, adverbs, etc. Hence, they are meaningful lexical

elements and can have their own dictionary entries.