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Aspects Of Bura Noun Phrase
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1.2.4 OCCUPATION
The people of Bura are mainly
agriculturalists as they engage themselves in planting of crops like
maize, guinea corn, groundnut and rice. Among them there are also
weavers, fishermen, hunters, woodcarvers etc.
Fig. 1.2.4 Fishing Occupation of Bura People
1.2.5 FESTIVAL
Since the Bura people are mainly engaged in farming all their festivals
are farming related, as they organize harvest festivals before fresh
harvests are eaten.
An example is the maize harvest
festival performed before fresh corn can be eaten, it is believed that
it is sacriligious to eat an harvest before the harvest festival, hence
all farmers adhere to this law.
Fig. 1.2.5 Maize Harvest Festival of Bura People
1.2.6 CULTURE
The bura people have a rich culture, preserved and handed down from
generation to generation. They are simple country people, they believe
in justice, modesty, equity and fairness. They are accommodating and
live in peace with their neighbours. Talking about their mode of
greeting they greet more or less like Hausa's they bend down or kneel
down to greet each other.
1.3 GENETIC CLASSIFICATION
Africa fig. 1.3
Afro-Asiatic
Egyptian Semitic Cushitic Omitic Berber Chadic
West Chadic Biu Mandara East Chadic Masa
Tera
group Kotoko group Bura group Tligi group
Mandara group Matakaru group Bata group Suko group
Chibak Kiba Bura (pabir) Kiba Mangi Putai
Source: Comrie, B. (1987).
1.4 SCOPE AND ORGANISATION OF THE STUDY
This research will focus its attention the Noun phrase of Bura
language. This work aims at giving a detail syntactic analysis of the
Noun of Bura language.
This work attempts to discuss the
arrangement or combination of words to form phrases, clauses and
sentences in Bura. This description will also focus and some of the
peculiar features of the language.
This research work consist
of five chapters. Chapter one deals with the introductory aspect of the
work, that is the sociolinguistic profiles of the dialect, its
historical background, socio-cultural profile, genetic classification,
scope and organization of the study, theoretical framework. The second
chapter centers on the basic syntactic concepts, where we intend to
analyze the phrase structure rules as well as the lexical categories and
sentence types based on Government and Binding theory.
The
third chapter will examine the noun phrase of Bura, areas as noun
phrase position, noun phrase function, complementizers and the noun
phrase construction.
The chapter four centers on all the
levels of linguistics analysis in the language, that is the
transformation processes. Chapter five will present the summary as well
as the conclusion on the entire work.
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