Browsing by Author "Sanusi, Issa O."
Now showing 1 - 12 of 12
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NEGATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN STANDARD YORÙBÁ AND Ẹ̀GBÁ DIALECT(A JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST, GHANAINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES;, 2016) Sanusi, Issa O.This paper compares negative constructions in Standard Yorù bá (SY) and Ẹ̀gbá dialect (ẸD), using the Principles and Parameters theory as a theoretical framework. A major finding of this study is that while ‘má ’ is attested as a negative marker in SY, it is attested as a progressive marker in ẸD. It is also found that, the negative marker ‘kò’ is the only negative marker in SY that has variants ‘kò’ and ‘ò ’; but all negative markers in ẸD, except ‘à ì’ and ‘tì’ have variants. In terms of behaviour and features of these negative markers in different syntactic positions, a lot of differences exist between those that are attested in SY and ẸD, bringing about differences in their negative constructions. The paper concluded that, despite the fact that Ẹ̀gbá is a dialect of Yorù bá , a lot of differences were seen in their negative constructions as a result of the differences in the syntactic positions and features of the negative markers attested in the two speech forms.Item COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF QUESTION FORMATION IN OLÙKÙMI AND STANDARD YORÙBÁ: A MINIMALIST APPROACH(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES, A JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST, GHANA, 2016) Sanusi, Issa O.The objective of this paper is to carry out a survey of the question formation processes in Olùkùmi and Standard Yorùbá. Our primary aim is to identify the clause structure in each of the two languages, study how questions are formed in the two languages, and identify the types of questions used in the two languages. Frame technique method was adopted for our data collection. The claim that the two languages originated from the same source was also confirmed. The theoretical framework adopted for this work is the Minimalist Program. It was chosen to test the relevance of its claims to African language data.Item Diagonistics for Distinguishing between SVO & SOV Languages: Evidence from English & Brotonu(The Linguistic Association of Nigeria, 2007) Sanusi, Issa O.Item The Mathematical Operations in Batonu Numeral System(Journal of Universal Language, 2018) Sanusi, Issa O.; Yusuf, Lateefat OluwatosinItem MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION OF HABITUAL MARKER IN HAUSA VERBS BORROWED INTO KAMUKU: FROM PRE-VERBAL TO POST-VERBAL POSITION(INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES, 2017) Sanusi, Issa O.; Bala, Abdullahi MasheguIn order to enhance effective communication and for the purpose of lexical expansion, languages borrow from other neighbouring languages with which they are in contact. Therefore, borrowing occurs out of necessity. This paper examines borrowing and adaptation of the Hausa tenses into Kamuku. The tenses in Hausa are eight. The subjunctive and relative past tenses do not necessarily have tense markers. When Hausa verbs are borrowed into Kamuku the eight Hausa tenses are reduced to four in Kamuku. The habitual aspectual marker in Kamuku is post-verbal while it is pre-verbal in Hausa. According to Dahl (1985, pp.95-102), some languages have tenses that are specialized to the expression of habitual aspect. In line with this assertion, we have discovered in this study that some tense marker could be used as habitual marker. Also, habitual marker in Hausa which is originally pre-verbal is changed to appear post-verbal when borrowed into Kamuku. It is the morphology of this change that this paper intends to examine within the morphological framework of ‘fixed order of elements’.Item Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Pictorial Dipictions of Nigeria Nigerian Socio-Political Political Issues on Facebook(Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Language, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, 2018) Olaleye, Joel Eniola; Sanusi, Issa O.Item The Phenomenon of Noun Class Systems: The Case of Batonu(Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society, 2003) Sanusi, Issa O.Item Resultative Serial Verb Constructions in Igbo: A Minimalist Approach(National Institute for Nigerian Languages, Aba, 2015) Sanusi, Issa O.; Amaechi, MaryItem The Role of Movement Transformation in Recursiveness: Evidence from English and Standard Yorùbá(Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013) Sanusi, Issa O.Human beings are naturally endowed with innate ability with which they make use of finite number of grammatical constituents to generate infinite number of acceptable and grammatical sentences, through a linguistic process known as recursion. What is really marvelous about recursion is the fact that, in addition to its pervasiveness among natural languages, the resultant amazing sentences produced through the process are always rule-governed. Such derived sentences can be subjected to grammaticality judgement by any native speaker of the language in which the sentences are produced; no matter how long the sentences might be. The aim of this paper is to present empirical data from English and Standard Yorùbá1 (two languages that are genetically unrelated)2 for the purpose of illustrating how the syntactic creativity of recursiveness produces new meanings and nuances of meanings through the application of a movement transformation like ‘relativization’ to a given basic sentence. The Principles and Parameters (P&P) theory is employed as a theoretical framework for our analysis in this paper.Item The Significance of Mother Tongue as a Catalyst for Intelectual Development: The Linguistic Perspective(National Institute of Nigeria for Nigeria Languages, 2015) Sanusi, Issa O.Item A SURVEY OF SUBJECT-AGREEMENT MARKERS IN SELECTED AFRICAN LANGUAGES(Alore: Ilorin Journal of the Humanities, 2002) Sanusi, Issa O.Item TRACING THE ORIGIN OF ‘CONTROL’ OUTSIDE THE CONTROL THEORY(Maiduguri Journal of Linguistic and Literacy Studies, 2005-11) Sanusi, Issa O.