THE ABNORMALITY OF TRANSLATING THE TIV PRONOUN AND FUTURE TENSE AS ONE LEXICAL ITEM

A reading through the Tiv Bible will reveal so many abnormalities in the way Tiv language is written. These can be seen mainly in the areas of spelling and translation of grammatical categories. For example, the third person pronoun and the future tense are often times treated as one lexical item. This article- argues that this is grammatically wrong. It therefore, aims at showing that the future tense and pronouns in Tiv are separate lexical ..items. To do this, examples of such abnormalities are drawn from the translation of the pronoun and the future tense in the Tiv Bible for analysis. The analysis of the corpus reveals that these* two can and should be lexicalised separately.