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Aspects Of Bura Negation
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1.2.5 Occupation
The main occupation of the
bura people is farming. Minority of the people are subsidized farmers,
though commercial farming is also practiced. The major crops are maize,
guinea corn, groundnut and rice.
1.2.6 Burial Rites
Bura
people celebrate death, when an old person dies, he or she is buried on
the second day when everyone has gathered in the evening. The corpse of
a chief is buried seated, but other people re laid flat on the floor of
the cavity. There is traditional dancing for seven days after the
burial and if the deceased was an important person, it lasts for 14days.
On one of the mourning days the Fulnchambwi dance is done. The male
dancers jump from the ground to the roof of the hut of the deceased and
back again until the roof is destroyed. After this the date is fixed for
the last mourning or sadaka, which is held about six (6) months later,
but usually during the dry season.
1.3 Genetic Classification
This essence of a genetic classification of a language is to trace the
origin of the language and show it relationship with the other language.
Bura language belong to the Afro-Asiatic Family which is shown by the family tree below
Source “Comrie, B. (ed) (1987)
1.4 Scope and Organization of the Body
The main objective of this project is to study in details the type of
negation strategies that exist in Bura language. Negation in Bura will
be an sentence negation, auxiliary negation, imperative negation and
interrogation negation. We shall also study in respect to transformation
processes which involve modifications of constituents.
This
long easy is divided into five chapters, the first chapter is the
introduction chapter which contains the general introduction of the
research work, the historical background of the Bura people,
social-cultural profile, genetic classification, collection and analysis
of data and the theoretical framework employed.
Chapter Two
presents a phonological review of Bura language and the basic syntactic
concepts like phrase structure rules, basic word order, lexical
categories and sentences types. Chapter Three is on the negation in Bura
language, while chapter four introduces us to transformational
processes like focus construction, relativization. Chapter five
summarizes and concludes the work.
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