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The Kofyar Noun Phrase
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1.2.4 Occupation
Basically farming, and hunting as a secondary occupation.
Respect
When expressing respect, they squat when elders are telling children does not interrupt.
1.3 Genetic Classification
According to Greenberg (1966:8), African language belongs, to various
families and there are four major main groups namely, Niger Kordofonia,
Niloshara, AfroAsiatic, Khoisan.
The Kofyar language is
grouped under family a sub family of language like human being, are
genetically related. Kofyar language, is spoken in both quapan local
government, of plateaus state, and Lafia local government of nasarawa
state.
West chadic B
Afro Asiatic
Adapted from: Roger Blench (2006)
Berbe
chadic
Cushitic
Egyptia n
Omotic
Semitic
Blumandara
East chadic
Masa
West chadic
West chadic A
Hausa guardara
Boletangle
Angas Gerica
Ronfyer
Jorto
Kofyar
Mushore
muship
Yiwom
Angnas
1.4 Scope and Organisation of Study
In
this research, the general overview of noun phrase, in Kofyar language
will be discuss. This research work is divided into five chapters.
The
first chapter: Is the introductory chapter, which includes, historical
background, socio cultural profile, the scope and organization of the
study, as well as theoretical frame work, the data collection method,
and data analysis, and finally the brief review of those frame work.
The
second chapter: Focuses on sound inventory, the basic syntactic
concept. Such as phrase structure rule, 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 process that are attested in the language.
The fourth chapter: Will examine transformation process such as Focusing, Relativization, and Passivisation.
The
fifth chapter: Which is the last chapter will present a brief summary
of the whole research finding, and drawn conclusion, and recommendation,
based on such findings.
1.5 Theoretical Framework
For this
research to achieve, the set of goals, the theory to be adopted is
government and binding theory. In the Analysis of noun phrase of Kofyar
language.
1.6 Data Collection
This research is made possible
through the bi-lingual language helpers. However, the Ibadan four
hundred words list, and some sentence, construction, are used to extract
necessary information. From the language speaker, the method of
collection, was through direct translation from English to Kofyar
language.
However bi-lingual approach was used because, the
informants speaks more than two language, which includes English, Kofyar
and Hausa Language more so the informant are native speaker of Kofyar
Language.
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