A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF TIV AND ENGLISH PLURALISATION PROCESSES

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dc.contributor.authorISHOWUA, DAVID TERHEMBA
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-18T09:24:02Z
dc.date.available2016-03-18T09:24:02Z
dc.date.issued2015-05
dc.descriptionTHESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGEen_US
dc.description.abstractThis research work entitled: “A Contrastive Analysis of Tiv and English Pluralisation Processes” discusses the fact that Tiv Language is still yearning for development as much is needed to study on Tiv Language. This is to help develop and standardize the language through orthograghy, morphology and phonology as at the present there is no central orthography for Tiv Language. This is more so that most of Tiv young generation does not know how to speak or write the Tiv Language. In doing this, the work has attempted to identifying the various morphological pluralisation processes and realizations that exist in Tiv and English Languages. The study also looked at different morphological rules that govern the use of pluralisation in the two languages and how these morphological realizations affect the syntactic structure of Tiv and English. Both the primary and secondary sources like interviews, books and journals were used in the collection of data for the work and the researcher has used the primary or the Direct Method and sampled ten subjects from the native speakers of Tiv language by way of interview. And it is the sample obtained from the interview that the researcher adapted in the analysis of the Tiv data and used the secondary source in analyzing the English data. The researcher used the Realisational Optimality Theory for the analysis of the work. In the main, this work contrasts the Tiv and English pluralisation processes identifying the similarities and differences between the two. The work also hinged on the regular and irregular plurals in Tiv Language which has been taken for granted by speakers and researchers of the language. The work recommends that the Benue State Government should re-introduce the study of Tiv Language in all nursery, primary and secondary schools in Tiv-speaking areas of the state. It is also the recommendation of the work that future researchers on Tiv Language should study more on the area of Tiv pluralisation and that the study of Tiv Language should be introduced fully at the degree level in Benue State University, Makurdi where Tiv Language is now only studied as a course unit in Linguistics.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7490
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectA CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS,en_US
dc.subjectTIV,en_US
dc.subjectENGLISH PLURALISATION,en_US
dc.subjectPROCESSES,en_US
dc.titleA CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF TIV AND ENGLISH PLURALISATION PROCESSESen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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