Ifeoma Nweze

• Asst. Prof. at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike Ikwo

This paper examines the syntactic and semantic analytic descriptions of tense in the standard Ígbò and Ìmìlìkè dialect with emphasis on both the affirmative and negative constructions. The study was inspired by the dearth of scholarly work in this aspect of the Igbo language (Niger Congo: Nigeria). The theoretical framework of Bull’s (1963) analysi...

Ebumnuche nchọcha a bụ ịchọpụta na ịkọwa ụdịdị Nnyemaka ngwaa dị n’olu ndị Ẹzaa, ngosi oge ha n’ọrụ dị iche iche ha na-arụ. A gbasoro atụtụ agwara okwu were tụchaa ụfọdụ ahịrịokwu Ẹzaa ndị nwere nnyemaka ngwaa. A gbasoro atụtụ a n’ihi na ọ bụ atụtụ e ji akọwa mgbakọta mkpụrụ okwu nnọrọ onwe n’ahịrịokwu nakwa mmekọrịta mkpụrụ okwu ndị gbara mk...

Nchọcha a lebara anya n’ahịrị okwu ndị nwere mmafenye ma ọ bụ ngwakọ asụsụ Igbo na Bekee iji zipụta myiri usoro okwu asụsụ abụọ a na otu myiri ha si akwalite anaghịnwu asụ asụsụ Igbo ghara ịgwakọ ya na Bekee dịka e si ahụta ya n’ala Igbo taa. Usoro a gbasoro mee nchọcha a bụ nke nkọwasị, ma were atụtụ ewumewu ahịrị nnọrọ onwe (Matrix Language Frame...

This paper examines how proverbs drafted from body parts and animals are deployed in literary discourse on war/conflict context to perform specific acts and functions. Drawing insights from Mey’s (2001) Pragmatic Acts, the paper argues that proverbs used in conflict context are ideological and perform specific pragmatic acts and functions. Using pu...

Ụmịedemede Asụsụ bụ ụzọ mmadụ na ibe ya si ezikọrịta ozi. Obodo ọbụla nwere asụsụ nke ha; asụsụ ọbụla nwekwara olu ndị nke e siri na ha wube asụsụ izugbe ha. Ọtụtụ asụsụ na-alazi ala n’ihi mmasị ndị mmadụ nwere n’ebe asụsụ ndị ka enye ohere inweta akụ, mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya na nke obodo na ibe ya nọ. Ọ bụ ụdị ọnọdụ a mere asụsụ Igbo ji adala az...

The gradual shift from the offline to online communication such as text messaging has given way to innovative language-short forms whose morph-syntactic aspects have permeated the linguistic characters of the texters. For about a decade now, there exist a growing body of research on mobile phone text messaging by linguists but only very few have be...