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Verb Phrase In Kurama
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1.4 DATA COLLECTION
The method of linguistic data
collection used in this work for the purpose of obtaining illustrating
data is through the use of an informant whose name is Mr. Yohanna Yusuf,
a native of Yarkasua in Kaduna state and he is 25years old. Ibadan 400
wordlist was used to obtain data. We also made use of frametechnique.
Frametechnique could be described as the syntactical analysis of
language data, using sentences and not just morphemes like wordlist. In
frametechnique, words are not considered in isolation.
Wordlist could be described as the medium through which a researcher or
investigator collect information on the language being studied through
the help of an informant or language helper. The use of wordlist appears
to be the quickest form of obtaining linguistic data. By it
application, a linguist is able to obtain both phonetic and phonemic
consonant and vowels in that language.
1.5 DATA ANALYSIS
It should be noted that the statistic of the data collected has a
linguistic significance to this work, with the use of Ibadan 400
wordlist; we were able to collect to two hundred and forty-nine (249)
Nouns, one hundred and twenty-eight (128) verbs and, twenty two (22)
adjectives with the help of the native speaker. Twenty sentences were
collected which includes verb phrase which comprises of transitive and
intransitive verbs.
1.6 BRIEF REVIEW OF GOVERNMENT AND BINDING THEORY
The theory was made known by a popular American linguist called Noam
Chomsky just to eradicate the lapses discovered in the structural
grammar. He published a book in (1957) titled “Syntactic structuresâ€
which established the idea of generative grammar itself. Another
greater research was made by him which led him to the publication of a
book known as “Aspects†it is really called “Standard theory†in (1965)
purposely to make a clear distinction between the deep and the surface
structures. “Deep structures†is an abstract level of structural
organization which deals with meaning while “surface structures†is
thereby dealing with the phonetic or spoken form of every sentence
(Horrocks, 1987:2, Cook 1988:28)
During the 1970s, this led
to the extended standard theory referring to the types of rules that
were employed which now developed into the Government and Binding theory
named after†Lectures on Government and binding “Chomsky 1981a, Cook
1988:1) G.B Theory/Model is a Chomsky overall theory involving abstract
and difficult sub theories, creating a new simplicity and capturing the
internal and universal knowledge of language using small numbers of
properties. The following are the sub-theories of Government and binding
theory:
1. X- bar Theory
2. Bounding Theory
3. Case Theory
4. Control Theory
5. Theta Theory
6. Binding Theory
7. Government Theory
The above sub-theory of G.B will be explained respectively purposely to
know the importance of each and how they are applied.
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