A CONTRASTIVE MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF ENGLISH AND IGBO AFFIXATIONS

Onuegwunwoke Cynthia Adaeze, Olekaibe Chinenye

Abstract


Affixation is one of the morphological processes of word creation in many languages. This paper presented a contrastive morphological study of English and Igbo affixation with a brief analysis of some morphological processes of word creation. The theoretical framework used for analysis was the Immediate Constituents Analysis (ICA) propounded by Leonard Bloomfield in his book entitled Language (1933). The paper described the features of affixation in English and Igbo, identifying areas of differences and similarities. As a descriptive library research paper, it came up with the following findings: (a) That every language is unique (b) That the English Language affixation process is more inconsistent than that of Igbo language. (c) That Igbo affixes are mostly verb-based. (d) That Igbo does not have zero affix and radical affix features (e) That in place of suprafixation, what Igbo has is extensional suffix

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