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Aspects Of Bura Noun Phrase
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1.5 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Theoretical framework adopted in this work Government and Binding
theory(G.B theory). This Government and Binding theory was proposed by
an American linguist named Noam Chomsky in (1981),as a reaction to
transformational generative grammar to account for all and only the
representations that underline the grammatical sentence in a language.
Government and Binding theory is modular deductive theory of grammar.
Proponents of G.B often maintained that there is no such thing as roles
of language. But only the principles and parameters whose values can
only vary from one language to the other do exist with specified units.
Chomsky (1995:15-16) remarks as follows, 'The principles and parameters
approach held that language have no rule in anything like familiar
sense transformation and no theoretically significant grammatical
construction, except taxonomic artifacts'. There are universal
participles and finite array of options as to how such principles apply
(parameter) but no language particular roles.
It is also
worthy to note that though Government and Binding theory is a common
label of this model of syntax, it is misleading because it gives undue
prominence to the two elements of Government and Binding, whose status
was not fundamentally superior to the other sub-theories like x-bar,
theta, case e.t.c. Hence, the 'principles and parameters theory has come
to be seen as a closer to it essence.
1.5 DATA COLLECTION
The method employed for data collection is the bilingual elicitation
approach, involving English and Bura language. The data were elicited
with the use of the Ibadan four hundred wordlist, which consist of basic
list simple words.
Apart from the 400 wordlist, phrases and
sentences in English were translated to Bura, by a Bura native speaker.
The data collected were subjected to analysis.
Oral
interviews were conducted in English language and answers were given in
Bura language by my informant. The answers to this questions were used
in the syntactic analysis of Bura language.
Below are the full details of my informant
Name: Abdulahi Ahmed
Age: 42 years old.
My informant is a native speaker of Bura language.He is from Gombi
local government area in Adamawa state. My informant speaks the
following language: English, Hausa and Bura.
But due to
the busy schedule of my informant at the time in which this research
work is been carried out was unable to provide all required
informations needed to complete this work, hence additional information
was seeked by the researcher online leading to the discovery of a Bura
dictionary prepared following a workshop in Jos, 24-25 April, 2009 and
represents a major shift in terms of orthography and definitions etc. as
prepared by Roger blench of www.rogerblench.info/RBOP.htm E-mail
trogerblench@yahoo.co.uk
1.7 DATA ANALYSIS
In
this research work,the data was collected form my informant both in
writing and recording an audio cassette then the analysis of the data
collected was carried out using Government and Binding theory of syntax
as proposed by Chomsky (1986). This research work will be
limited
to the aspect of noun phrase.The informant used was fluent in the
language, his fluency and competence formed the basis of his choice as
my informant.
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