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The Use of Adverbs in Obeledu Dialect and Standard Igbo: A Contrastive Analysis

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Studies have shown that all human languages have ways of expressing adverbs and adverbial notions. In addition, multiple studies on the dialects of Igbo have focused on a wide range of areas in the linguistics field with various scholars focusing on comparative analysis of different dialects of Igbo. However, findings showed that only few researches have been done on adverbs in the various varieties of Igbo language; especially on Obeledu dialect of Igbo language. As a result of the very few researches on the use of adverbs in Igbo and particularly in Obeledu dialect, there are a number of things we do not know about adverbs in Obeledu dialect of Igbo language. We do not know the peculiarities found in the adverbs of Obeledu dialect; we do not know how adverbs, as a word class, operate and/or are realized in Obeledu dialect of Igbo language. Also, our knowledge is limited with respect to what similarities and differences that exist in the use of adverbs in Obeledu dialect and Standard Igbo. This study therefore problematized the use of adverbs in Obeledu dialect and Standard Igbo. This paper is theoretically framed around Lado’s (1957) Contrastive Analysis (CA). To attempt to answer the questions raised in this paper, the study employed a descriptive research design in order to provide the procedural outline for the conduct of the study under investigation. Obeledu, a town that is geographically situated in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State constitutes the study area. Data for the study were collected by means of elicitation from six elderly speakers who are natives of Obeledu and had lived in the village for a period of time. The elicited information was recorded with the aid of phone recording. The data collected for this research were analyzed through the use of simple descriptive method. The data was then presented in tabular form and analysed accordingly. The findings of the study showed that adverbs are used the same way in the two varieties concerned. Findings further showed that there are identifiable similarities and differences in the use of adverbs in the two varieties of the language at the lexical, phonological, semantic and morphological levels. Adverbs therefore function as adverbial clause elements and modifiers of adjectives, prepositions, pronouns, determiners, numerals and noun phrases in both SI and OD.

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 10, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijll.20221004.15
Page(s) 260-269
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Keywords

Adverbs, Contrastive Analysis, Standard Igbo, Obeledu Dialect

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