COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PLURALITY IN THE ENGLISH AND IGBO LANGUAGES

ABSTRACT

This research work is geared towards assessing the similarities and differences of marking plurality in English and Igbo languages. This long essay is organized in five chapters. The first chapter is the introduction that entails the background of study, objectives of study, significance of study, research problem questions, scope and delimitation of the study and the research methodology. Chapter two contains the review of literature, which is the analysis of peoples opinion of plurals and the theoretical framework. Chapter three treats the description of population of the study, research instrument, the questionnaire method, the textual material method, the procedure for data collection, sampling procedure, research design and data analysis techniques. Chapter four is the presentation of the data analysis that is used in the research and findings. Finally, chapter five is the summary of the work, conclusion and recommendation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE I

CERTIFICATION II

APPROVAL PAGE III

DEDICATION IV

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS V

ABSTRACT VI

TABLE OF CONTENTS VII

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY 1

1.2 OBJECTIVES OF STUDY 10

1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY 10

1.4 RESEARCH PROBLEMS 11

1.5 SCOPE AND DELIMITATION FOR THE STUDY 12

1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 12

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW 13

2.1 THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK 29

2.2 THE TRADITIONAL DESCRIPTION OF WORD FORMATION OF

THE PLURALITY IN ENGLISH AND IGBO LANGUAGE 29

CHAPTER THREE

3.0 INTRODUCTION 31

3.1 DESCRIPTION OF THE POPULATION OF THE STUDY 31

3.2 RESEARCH INSTRUMENT 31

3.3 THE QUESTIONNAIRES METHOD 32

3.4 THE TEXTUAL MATERIAL METHOD 32

3.5 PROCEDURE FOR DATA COLLECTION 32

3.6 SAMPLING PROCEDURE 33

3.7 RESEARCH DESIGN 33

3.8 DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES 34

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0 INTRODUCTION 35

4.1 ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA 35

4.2 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS 35

4.3 FINDINGS 45

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0 INTRODUCTION 47

5.1 SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS 47

5.2 CONCLUSION 48

5.3 RECOMMENDATION 51

WORK CITED 52

APPENDIX 54