A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND ADARA TENSES AND ASPECTS: A CASE OF EWA DIALECT

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dc.contributor.authorAMBATU, SOLOMON DANTAWAYEen
dc.creatorAMBATU, SOLOMON DANTAWAYEen
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-22T03:12:58Z
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dc.description.abstractThis thesis is titled ―A Contrastive Study of English and Adara Tenses and Aspects: A Case of Ewa Dialect‖. The study aimed at contrasting the syntactic relationship between the structures of tenses and aspects of English which is an Indo-European language with Ewa dialect of Adara, a Nigerian (African) language which is classified under the Benue-Congo sub-group. The contrasts hinged primarily on the verb elements of both languages to provide information relevant for pedagogical purposes as it affects the Adara learner of English language, and for the furtherance of linguistic studies. Dialects of Adara are many but the ̳Ewa‘ dialect has been chosen for the contrastive study since the researcher is its native speaker. The data for this study were obtained from both primary and secondary sources. Speeches by native speakers of Adara through their spontaneous utterances, interviews and observations constitute the primary data, while other items from research works on English, Nigerian languages and textbooks constitute the secondary data. The theoretical framework is eclectic which comprise Chomsky‘s Transformational Generative Grammar and Whitman‘s model of Contrastive Analysis. The findings show variations in the internal structures of sampled data indicating tenses and aspects in the structure of verb elements of English and Adara respectively. Where English tense markers for example feature by the addition of –s in present tenses, or–ingin progressive tenses, or –d in simple past tenses as final elements in verbs, to mark, present, past or progressive tenses; Adara uses auxiliaries such as ̳sa‘ (past perfect), ̳ku‘(simple past), ̳su‘(present progressive), ̳ki‘ (future). There are no inflections in Adara verb elements. The use of irregular verbs in English such as ̳went‘and ̳did‘ to express past is not obtainable in Adara. Instead, auxiliaries are used before the main verb including ̳ku‘ for general past, ̳ba‘ for past ̳yesterday‘ and ̳sa‘ for past ̳beyond yesterday‘. There are variations in the location of negative particles in English and Adara verb phrases. In English, negation is marked by the ̳not‘ element which occurs between the auxiliary and the main verb as in ̳I will not come‘. In Adara, the negative particle ̳ba‘ occurs as a final element separated from the main verb by a pronoun as in ̳Ime (I) ki (will) ba (come) mi (me) ba (not)‘ meaning ̳I will not come‘. The differences noted in the findings have a lot of pedagogic implications in the teaching and learning of English as a second language and adds to the existing linguistic literature in Adara. The thesis therefore concludes with a recommendation for further studies of the entire sentence structure since this study is limited to tenses and aspects structures within the verb phrase. Also, there is the need to study the phonology, semantics and morphology of Adara language in comparative or contrastive fields with English or as a separate investigation of Adara language.en
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dc.publisherAhmadu Bello University Zariaen
dc.titleA CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND ADARA TENSES AND ASPECTS: A CASE OF EWA DIALECTen
dc.typePost Graduate Thesesen
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thesis.matric.numberP14AREN9007en
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