
Ogbonna AnyanwuUniversity of Uyo | UNIUYO · Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages
Ogbonna Anyanwu
Doctor of Philosophy
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Inherent-complement verbs (ICVs) are very pervasive in some Kwa languages. They obligatorily co-occur with complements without which they may not have any independent and recognizable meaning or at best will be semantically vague and incomplete. This Chapter provides a descriptive analysis of Ibibio (New Benue Congo) ICVs. It examines and classifie...
Being a multilingual and multicultural nation, Nigeria is blessed with over 525 languages (Blench, 2014) from four different language families. The sheer number of indigenous languages makes an interesting tapestry! Unfortunately, not much attention has been paid to the study of our indigenous languages, with all the abundant prospects. This paper...
The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures. This study examines causatives in Igbo within the minimalist program. It identifies three types of causative: analytic...
Leggbó does not have dedicated grammatical forms that primarily encode temporal notions, which implies that it does not have 'tense' as a grammatical category. However, some aspect-mood forms have temporal implications. Like all languages, it has lexical items that refer to time and specific constructions in which they are used. In this paper, we t...
The Nigerian speech communities during the pre-colonial era were indigenous language speaking communities before English became the official language of Nigeria. At present, English has not only become the dominant language in the indigenous communities, but also the medium of instruction in schools and media. Parents in most homes, even take pride...
Ebughu has been classified as belonging to the Ibibiod group, a sub- branch of Lower Cross in Delta Cross within the Cross River branch of the (New) Benue-Congo (Urua, 2000).It is spoken in Ebughu village in Mbo local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Much is not known in documented forms about Ebughu and its speakers. Like most language...
This paper examines in some more detail the syntax and semantics of inherent complement verbs in Igbo. This is in addition to Emenanjo (1984, 1986) and Nwachukwu (1987). Here, we have followed Nwachukwu (1987) to assume that inherent complements in Igbo are not the same as the direct objects of transitive verbs. However, contrary to Nwachukwu (1987...
Causative and anti-causative verb alternations include the commonly attested cross-linguistic morphosyntactic phenomena and most languages have different ways of marking the alternations. Whereas in some languages, there is a clear morphological marking on the verb to indicate the causative/anti-causative distinction, in some others, there is no su...
Pronominal elements in Igbo have been categorized into two types; the independent ones and the dependent, short, weak ones. Whereas the independent pronominal elements can occur both at the subject and object positions, the so-called dependent ones (which have also been analyzed as resumptive pronouns (Uwalaka, 1995)) are restricted to the subject...
The Ibibio language is a member of the lower cross group of languages within the (New) Benue-Congo sub-family of the Niger-Congo family. It is predominantly spoken in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Ibibio has two types of copular construction; a locative copular construction and a predicative copular one. This paper provides a descriptive account of the...