Tense and Aspect in Nigerian Pidgin
Joseph OsobaThis book is a study of tense and aspect in Nigerian Pidgin. The structural and textual patterning of tense and aspect in Nigeria Pidgin is explicated based on the earliest versions of Chomsky`s transformational generative grammar with the aim of providing a platform for the application of latter theories including government and binding principles and X-bar syntax. Introspective, experimental and analytical methods were employed for corpus collection from Warri, Sapele and Port-Harcourt.Data was also collected from First Language speakers of Nigerian Pidgin and printed sources.The study clearly demonstrates that Nigerian Pidgin is a full-fledged language with all features of a natural language whose structure is amenable to theoretical and conceptual analysis.
their inventory of tense/aspect categories, but also in the forms that they use to express ... …there is no West African language or even class of languages, whose ... creole formation consisted of reduced pidgin-like varieties, lacking essential ... well as creoles): No pidgin has more inflectional morphology than its respective lexifier(s), and ... definiteness on nouns and tense and aspect on verbs (see section 3). This bias in ... “Some linguistic characteristics of African-based pidgins .
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retained than others across pidgin languages. The data in this paper will show that “contextual” inflections such as case marking on nouns and nominal agreement on verbs are retained slightly less often than “inherent” inflections such as number and definiteness on nouns and tense and aspect on verbs (see section 3). THE USE OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH IN …
to make, as one aspect of theworldwide increase in linguistic conformiry and the ... This has happened for instance with Tok Pisin, Nigerian Pidgin English, and ... reflect separate logical opcrato$, rather than incorporating tense, etc. into the ...
Pidgin in Nigerian journalism. Article · May 2009 with 15 Reads How we measure 'reads' A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: …
Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: … This paper presents quantitative analyses of variation in selected areas of the grammar of Nigerian Pidgin as spoken by educated speakers (who also have a good command of English, the lexifier): tense/aspect marking, copula forms and verbal negation.
The Nigerian Pidgin English – dirisujesse'blog The Nigerian Pidgin is arguably the most widespread koine/lingua franca in the Nigerian linguistic space. Holding sway primarily in the the Southern region of the country (the Hausa language appears to be the wider spread Lingua Franca in the North, however this is receding with the ever increasing spread of NP), and in Cities throughout the nation.