IGBO CLITICS AS AGREEMENT MARKERS: A STUDY OF GRAMMATICAL NUMBER IN ENGLISH AND IGBO

Dike, Chioma Vivian and Ngulube, Isaac Eyi (2025) IGBO CLITICS AS AGREEMENT MARKERS: A STUDY OF GRAMMATICAL NUMBER IN ENGLISH AND IGBO. International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics, 8 (1). pp. 20-36. ISSN 2689-9450

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Abstract

This study investigates the morphosyntactic analysis of grammatical number in English and Igbo languages. This study therefore sets out to examine the differences and similarities that exist in the use of grammatical number in English and Igbo, exploring areas of similarity that may enhance the learning of the second language, and areas of difficulty that may pose problems to the second language learner. No theoretical framework is employed since the study is descriptive. The study examines how grammatical number is marked in English and Igbo. The study establishes that gender could be neutral, masculine, or feminine. It delineates a person into first, second, or third. Number is the focus of this study, how it affects the various parts of speech – nouns and grammatical number, pronouns and grammatical number, verbs and grammatical number, demonstratives and grammatical number. The study concludes that the Igbo language is very rich in its ability to produce options in varying syntactic constructions and relations. We therefore termed the constituents that mark number agreement between the subjects and the objects and the verb as AGR morphemes. The nature of these AGR morphemes needs to be explained theoretically and we shall leave that for another study

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
Divisions:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Art
Depositing User:	Uchenna Eneogwe
Date Deposited:	31 Aug 2025 12:07
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2025 12:07
URI:	http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/5405

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