THE SYNTAX OF AGATU PERSONAL NAMES
| dc.contributor.author | Umaru, Jacob Yakubu | |
| dc.contributor.author | Muhammad, Bashir Yusuf | |
| dc.contributor.author | Abraham, David A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-12T10:48:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-12T10:48:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-09-17 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The paper gives an insight into the syntactic structure of Agatu personal names. The motivation for the research is the importance attached to linguistic act of naming, which is a unique human trait and medium for conceptualising and interpreting human experiences and essence. The study is-limited to Ag£tu dialect spoken inAg&tu Local Government Area of Benue State. Two sources of information were open to the researchers for both primary and secondary data collection. The primary sources came from the field, which included those that were derived directly from the native speakers through interviews and observations. The language assistants/ consultants were Ag£tu - English bilinguals; whose competence in the chosen dialect and the data could be verified by any native speaker of Agcitu. Five respondents were selected from each of the villages, with three men and two women each from the villages. The consultants were chosen because they were native speakers and have lived in the local government area for a long time. Textual materials such as thesis, dissertations and projects, journal articles, chapters in books, encyclopaedia, textbooks, internet, and so on form the secondary _ sources of data collection. One of the researcher's high levels of competence in the language was also very useful in the collection, collation and elicitation of data collected on the field. This also helps to give direction to the work. The researchers made use of five techniques for data collection, that is, the oral interviews, which involved one - on - one interaction between the researchers and the respondents, one of the researcher's intuitions as a native speaker, tape recording of interactions between the researchers and the respondents and subsequent translation of the data by the research assistants. Competent native speakers who are proficient in the dialect were also used to translate the data. This enabled the researchers to elicit actual translation of the English to Ag£tu version and to analyse the syntax of Ag6tu names. Descriptive method of data analysis was used to analyse the structure of Ag6tu names. The findings of this paper show that the structures of . Agcitu personal names are in words, phrases as well as sentences, which are desententialized. This research, therefore, has contributed to the syntactic • analysis of African languages. | en_US |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/3648 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of Languages and Linguistics, Nasarawa State University, Keffi | en_US |
| dc.subject | Syntax, Personal Names, Philosophy, Culture and Ag&tu | en_US |
| dc.title | THE SYNTAX OF AGATU PERSONAL NAMES | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |