Reduplication in Nigerian English.
ABSTRACT
This work is concerned with reduplication in Nigerian from the speeches and utterances of some students in the Department of Modern European Languages and Linguistics, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.
The study shows that reduplication occurs to signify contrastive meaning, , emphasis and creation of new words with different semantic forms.
was therefore further discovered to be one of the of Nigerian English.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
Title page i
Approval page ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgement iv
Table of content v
Abstract viii
1.0 Introduction 1
1.1 Background to the Study 1
1.2 Research Questions 2
1.3 Objectives of the Study 3
1.4 Significance of the Study 3
1.5 Scope and Limitation of the Study 4
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 Introduction 5
2.1 Overview of Nigerian English 5
2.2 Reduplication and Repetition 8
2.3 Reduplication and Triplication 10
2.4 Reduplication and Tautology 12
2.5 Full and Partial Reduplication 14
2.6 Functions of Reduplication 16
CHPTER THREE
3.0 Introduction 18
3.1 Sources of Data 18
3.2 Methods of Data Collection 19
3.3 Analytical Procedure 20
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 Introduction 21
4.1 Data Presentation and Analysis 21
4.2 Contrastive Meaning in Reduplication 24
4.3 Pluralism in Reduplication 26
4.4 Emphatic Expression in Reduplication 26
4.5 Discussion 28
CHAPTER FIVE
Summary of Findings and Conclusion 30
5.0 Introduction 30
5.1 Summary of Findings 30
5.2 Conclusion 31
References 33
INTRODUCTION
Reduplication is a morphological process in which the root of a word or a part of it is repeated. In many languages, reduplication is used in inflections to convey grammatical functions and in lexical derivations to create semantic functions .
Kachru (1982) noted that the reduplication of items belongs to various word classes. For instance, some English words are often reduplicated or repeated consecutively, either for emphasis, pluralisation or to create new meanings.
Bobda (1994) identified three categories of words which generally undergo the process of reduplication; numerals, intensifiers and quantifiers.
1.1 Background to the Study
Reduplication is an important phenomenon in language studies. Its attributes have long been studied in terms of various formalist theories. However, there is a general consensus that the role of reduplication in English language has been widely ignored. Recent
corpus based studies have indicated that the usage of reduplication among English language speakers is more widespread than assumed to be and needs in-depth study (Nadarajan, 2007).
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