NAZARIN JAM’INTAWA A GUDDIRANCI

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2020-02
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MUHAMMAD, Aishatu Nana
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This research work entitled ―Nazarin Jam‘intawa a Guddiranci‖ examines the peculiarity of pluralization processes by affixation in Guddiri dialect as oppose to Standard Hausa and of course some other Hausa dialects. Primary sources of the data collection, such as interviews, active and passive observation techniques, and secondary sources of data collection, such as thesis, textbooks and projects were employed in the generation of all the data of the research work. Descriptive linguistic theory, using Abubakar (2001) model, was carefully used in analysing the available data. The work was fully able to discover some peculiar inflectional processes in Guddiri dialect plural formation as opposed to Standard Hausa usage. These peculiar processes are thus: the research established that the phonological processes such as palatalization, depalatalization and labialization played a vital role in Guddiri dialect plural formation, whereby mid and back vowel /u/ comes immediately after the alveolar unlike the front vowels of palatalization and depalatalization of Standard Hausa plural forms. The research also established that the open syllable of some words in Standard Hausa become closed syllable in Guddiri pluralisation, as in ‗damaatsaa —> ‗damtsootsii.
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A Dissertation submitted to the school of postgraduate studies Ahmadu Bello University , inpartial fulfilments of the requirements for the award of Master of Art, African Languages (Hausa) Department of African Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
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JAM’INTAWA,, GUDDIRANCI
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