Trends in the Study of Languages & Linguistics in Nigeria: A Festschrift for Philip Akụjụọobi NwachukwuOzo-mekuri Ndimele |
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... transitivity and intransitivity - namely , the presence or absence of an " object " , since as he argues , both transitive and intransitive verbs take " objects " . Secondly , he contends that all Igbo verbs have a nominal cognate ...
... transitivity and intransitivity - namely , the presence or absence of an " object " , since as he argues , both transitive and intransitive verbs take " objects " . Secondly , he contends that all Igbo verbs have a nominal cognate ...
Page 486
... transitive verb and ewu ' goat ' a direct object but -ma is not a transitive verb , neither is mmă ' beauty ' a direct object . 2.1.3 Nwachukwu ( 1983 ; 1984 ) has put his teeth into the problem of transitivity in Igbo more than all ...
... transitive verb and ewu ' goat ' a direct object but -ma is not a transitive verb , neither is mmă ' beauty ' a direct object . 2.1.3 Nwachukwu ( 1983 ; 1984 ) has put his teeth into the problem of transitivity in Igbo more than all ...
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... transitive with intransitive correlates . They differ as typically , they take no suffix , unlike those in 4.1.1 that do , and they split . A splitting verb occurs with an intervening object between the two segments of the verb ...
... transitive with intransitive correlates . They differ as typically , they take no suffix , unlike those in 4.1.1 that do , and they split . A splitting verb occurs with an intervening object between the two segments of the verb ...
Contents
Nwachukwu as a Celebrity | 1 |
The Poets Corner | 15 |
Applied Linguistics Sociolinguistics | 21 |
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