Emmanuel Akaninyene Okon Ph.D

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at University of Uyo

This study examines argument preposing in Ibibio, a Lower-Cross language spoken in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, from its base-generated position to a case feature position and then to the left periphery of the sentence. It used the Minimalist Program (MP) as its theoretical model to explain the syntactic and semantic causes of argument preposing in ov...

The study investigates the phonological processes of language-impaired children between the ages of 5 and 15. They were drawn from different special schools within Akwa Ibom State. They were purposively selected to examine the severity of the disorder for possible therapy and remediation. The study focused on the phonological processes of fricative...

The inability of children with autism spectrum disorder to communicate effectively and with confidence as well as the documentation of the level of deficiencies in their speech motivated the thrust of this study. A survey of 20 children aged 5 to 12 was conducted at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Autistic Centre in Rivers State, Nigeria. It examined the...

This paper on reflexivity and pronominal clitics in Ibibio adopts Government-Binding approach with special focus on binding and case sub-theories as its theoretical basis for analysis. The goal of these sub-theories is to identify the syntactic relationship that can or must hold between a given pronoun or noun and its antecedent. Ibibio is a Lower...

This article concerns verbs of seeing in Ekid, a Lower Cross language. It provides both the conceptual and extended meanings of verbs within the grammar of Ekid.

The study on the acquisition of negation in the Anaañ child language aimed at examining how an Anaañ child acquires negation. It also identifies the negative forms used by the Anaañ child. Ten children from Afaha Esang, Abak Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State were studied between the ages of one and a half and four years. The children's conve...

This work presents a description of the minimalist account of interrogative word movement in the Ibibio language, a morphologically rich Lower Cross language of the Niger-Congo phylum spoken in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The Ibibio language attests specific interrogative items for questioning human nouns, ànìé 'who', non-human nouns, nsòó/ǹtághà 'wh...

This chapter examines complements and heads in Ibibio (New Benue-Congo) nominal compounds including the syntactic and semantic bond between constituents of a nominal compound. It adopts the Minimalist Program (MP) of (Chomsky, The minimalist program. MIT Press, 1995) and conceptualizes on (Kayne, The antisymmetry of syntax. MIT Press, 1994) Linear...

International Journal of Linguistics and Communication (IJOLAC)

Department of Linguistics & Nigerian Languages University of Calabar & University of Uyo Cross River State & Akwa Ibom State Nigeria

This work examines the leftward unbounded movement of argument to an A' (A-bar) position in the Ibibio language-a Lower Cross-language spoken in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. It is the most widely spoken language in fourteen Local Government Areas of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Urua (2000). A-bar position or non-argument position is a position that is stru...

Department of Linguistics & Nigerian Languages University of Uyo, Nigeria.

This dissertation examines argument movement in Ùdá syntax. The theoretical framework adopted for the analysis of this work is the Government and Binding (GB) with special focus on X-bar, government, case, and theta sub-theories of GB. Data were elicited from the translation of the Ibadan four hundred and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) w...