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The Yiwom Noun Phrase
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1.3.4 BURIAL
In yiwom community, if someone
dies, women will gather in the house of the deceased while men will go
on arranging and preparing how to buy the casket they will use to bury
that person.
Notably, the burial grounds are always in
a spherical shaped form like a well. It is only on the mortal that the
dead is being washed believing that the mortal is blessed because if is
used in the process of their food. As men are carrying the corpse to the
grave, the women will be preparing food. A goat will be slaughtered in a
standing position and the skin will be used to cover the dead. If the
deceased is a female, some of her jewelries will be buried with her. The
food cooked during their burial ceremonies are called gyana-Nfirika.
1.3.5 MODE OF LEADERSHIP
Governance among the yiwom people is anchored on a council of elders
including a head of chiefs and a youth in the community, making
communication easy. The council of elders does the same in the
community.
1.4 GENETIC CLASSIFICATION
According
to Greenberg (1966:8) says African language belongs to various families
and there are four main groups namely : Niger Kodofanian, Nilo Sahara,
Afro-Asiatic and Khiosan.
The yiwom language is a chadic language of the Afro-asiatic language family.
Languages are classified like what I have explained above and they are
also genetically related just like humans beings.
Yiwom language is spoken among the Gerkawa people of plateau state of
Nigeria and the speakers were estimated in the year 2000 to be 14,100 in
number.
Daigram
1.5 SCOPE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY.
The general overview of this research work discuses noun phrase in
yiwom language. This research is divided into five chapter.
The first chapter is the introduction which include the historical
background, socio-cultural profile, the scope of organization of the
study as well theoretical frame work, the data collection, data Analysis
and finally brief review of the chosen framework.
The
second chapter shall focus on literature review, the basic phonological
and syntactic concept such as phrase structure rules: lexical
categories, basic word order and the sentence type.
The third chapter will focus on the main aspect of the study, which is
Noun phrase, that is, the nature of noun phrase and the processes that
are attested in the language.
The fourth chapter will
examine the transformational process such as focus construction,
relativization and passivization while we will see the last chapter
which is chapter 5 presenting a brief summary of the whole research
findings and conclusion and recommendation based on such findings.
1.6 DATA COLLECTION
This research is made possible through the multilingual helper.
However, the Ibadan 400 word list of basic items and some sentences
construction are use to extract necessary information from language
speakers. The method of collection was through direct translation of
English to Yiwom language
However, multilingual approach
was used because the informants, who are native speaker of Yiwom speaks
more than two languages which includes: English, Foron and Yiwom
language.
Mr. Michael Trumbek and
his wife, Mrs. Grace Trumbek are my language helpers they are both
teachers in Khilafilor Nursery and Primary School. I also went to CAPRO
research office and I was given a book titled CAPRO indeed. An ethnic
survey in Yiwom language in Plateau State. I was also given a linguistic
seminar and the institute of linguistics University of Ibadan, Jos
computer written by Shimizu, Kiyoshi (1975)
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