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    ENGLISH AND IGBO NOUN PHRASES: A BINDING APPROACH
    (2018-05-01) UGWUMBA Patience Chinemerem (14210105022)
    This work is a comparative study of English and Igbo noun phrases, under the submodule of GB known as binding theory. The study adopts a comparative approach as it compares the structure of NPs of both English and Igbo languages within the framework of Government and Binding theory as proposed by Noam Chomsky (1981, 1986a). Comparative studies between languages help to discover the differences and similarities existing between two languages that may border around the different linguistic systems. Binding theory which is the framework used for this study, is the theory of the syntactic restrictions on where the different NP types can appear in a sentence. The NPs discussed under BT are: Anaphors, Pronominals and R- expressions . As regards the methodology employed in this research, personal intuition, interview and consultation of written materials were used. In the findings, the researcher noted that r-expressions in both languages have the same components: nouns and determiner phrases. Pronominals in both languages perform basically the same functions but their forms differ. Also included in the findings is the fact that duo languages have reflexive markers, these they combine with appropriate pronouns to form their reflexive pronouns. The work is divided into five chapters.
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    AN ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS IN HAUSA CONDOLENCE: A CASE STUDY OF TSAFE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ZAMFARA STATE
    (2018-05-01) DANKANDE, Bala Tsafe (14210105014)
    The study aims at showing the importance of politeness in condolences in Hausa and how it promotes harmony and understanding among the people using Tsafe local government area as a case study. However, the three tape-recorded texts analyzed have been selected out of nine texts recorded using simple random sampling. The researcher uses Brown and Levinson’s (1987) Face Saving Theory of Politeness which was built around the notions of “face” and “face-threatening-acts” (FTAs). The data were obtained in a free and natural setting by the use of participant observation of real life situation and tape-recording of actual conversation in condolence sessions by the researcher and the data were subsequently transcribed, translated and analyzed. Consequently, the study reveals that politeness is a reciprocal venture. Death-talks particularly condolences are potentially face-threatening-acts and the level of politeness involved is informed by the relative gap in terms of power and social distance between the speaker and the addressee(s). There are substantial evidences from the data that show how interactants employed various politeness strategies, particularly the positive politeness and negative politeness strategies. There are also instances where various indirect and, euphemistic expressions were used politely to express condolences in a less offensive manner.
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    MODIFIER PLACEMENT IN ENGLISH AND FULFULDE LANGUAGES
    (2017-12-01) SALEH AHMAD ABDULLAHI (14210105005)
    The aim of this study is modifier placement in English and Fulfulde languages. The dissertation owes its motivation to the fact that comparative syntax is necessarily involves work on more than one language. It attempts to characterize and delineate the parameters that ultimately underlie cross-linguistic differences in Syntax. Even though, the present study is simply a descriptive one, yet it serves significant resource and input to descriptive analysis. This work explores modification in English and Fulfulde, putting into cognizance their distribution, forms and functions and their syntactic properties and position they occupy in the languages. This study obtained its data from primary and secondary sources. The primary source was of self introspection which was indispensable owing to the fact that the researcher is a native speaker of Fulfulde and the secondary source made use of materials drawn from existing documents. This study reveals; Fulfulde nominal modifications do not occur in pre-position but the Adjectives in the language do occur. However, English nominal modifications do not occur in the attributive position but the Adjectives in the language do occur in both predicative and attributive position. They always follow the Head Noun they modify and exhibit an agreement property in both languages.
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    MULTILINGUALISM IN URBAN ILORIN: A STUDY OF LANGUAGES IN CONTACT
    (2018-05-01) MUSA Ahmed Abdulkadir (13210109003)
    The dynamism of language contact situation is a global and general phenomenon. Thus, this present study is a pointer to the multilingual nature of urban Ilorin. It analyzed the languages in contact in this urban setting; such as Hausa / Fulfulde, Nupe and Yoruba languages, as well as English and Arabic language. This study posits that languages in contact, as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, have both positive and negative outcome in this urban multilingual community. This study was analyzed from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. And it was posited that the contact between the foreign and indigenous languages in Ilorin has a positive influence such as bilingualism, multilingualism, code – mixing, code- switching, and borrowing. However, the negative aspects of languages in contact in this community are issue of linguistic suicide and murder, or what is called language and cultural endangerment and extinction.
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    A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED POLITICAL CAMPAIGN ADVERTISEMENTS IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN THE 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NIGERIA
    (2021-08-01) ALABI, Bashir (17210105001)
    In order to win the hearts of the electorate, politicians and indeed, political parties engage in some ideologically discursive practices in their campaign advertisements and speeches. Usually, these discourse events are surreptitiously embedded in their adverts that many viewers hardly detect. This study examines how much these discursive events are employed in the political campaign adverts, particularly those aired on television. Eight campaign adverts aired on television each for the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were collected and subjected to critical discourse analysis. The study shows and indeed concludes that the producers of the advertisements employed various techniques, such as symbolism, accusation, common sense, ideological enactment and marketization as well as implicitness and explicitness not only to woo voters but also to enact their ideology and hegemony.