ABSTRACT This study presents a comprehensive contrastive analysis of the Kanuri language and the English language. The abstract begins by emphasizing the significance of language in human communication and the pivotal role of words in linguistic studies. It briefly touches upon the Kanuri people, their origins, and their traditional way of life, setting the context for the analysis. The focus of the study is primarily on the sentence structure in English and Kanuri, highlighting notable dif...
Abstract Language contact among Akokoid, Yoruboid and Edoid has resulted in extensive borrowing from Yoruboid and Edoid to Akokoid. Thus, the speech forms subsumed under Akokoid exhibit lexical items which are similar to Yoruboid and Edoid. To the best of our knowledge, no other scholarly work has addressed the concept ‘lexical variation in these speech forms, hence, the need for this present effort. Twenty lexical items were carefully selected for analysis in this paper. Data were elicite...
ABSTRACT One unique characteristic feature of the Yoruba language, spoken in South Western Nigeria is that when words are borrowed into it from other languages, such words are nativised. Some scholars have discussed the rules that apply in such cases. However, this kind of study has not been extended to Arabic names borne by Yoruba people (to the best of my knowledge). This paper therefore discusses the rules that apply on some of these names. Thirty Arabic names are purposively selected for ...
ABSTRACT The concept ‘concord’, which signifies agreement between the different elements that are used in a sentence, has been extensively discussed by scholars. It has usually been assumed that concord only poses problems for secondary school students and undergraduate students in tertiary institutions. Postgraduate students are thought to be immune to this problem. This paper examined the dissertations of eight postgraduate students in Linguistics Department, University of Ibadan with t...
This research work is error analyses of final year students of the department of linguistics and communication studies, university of Port Harcourt. The aim is to get a feedback that will be of immense value for better performances of the students. Literature on error analysis by some authors was reviewed. The students supplied the data for this study through their first semester examination scripts on a course taught by the researcher entitled “Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics” ...
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