Category: English

It is indisputable that Nigerian English has since been unequivocally accepted as a legitimate variety of English world wide. For this reason, in this essay, we will not delve into the controversial club to debate on the existence or non… … Read the rest

Over the years, language researchers have been polarized by diverse opinions concerning the existence, or perhaps non existence of a phenomenon known as “Nigerian English”. In the 1960s language writers like Wash (1967) narrowly defined “Nigerian English” as a variety… … Read the rest

Several centuries ago, only a fragment of the world population in such countries as United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and parts of South Africa used English as a means of both oral and written communication. To affirm this assertion,… … Read the rest

Processes of Word Formation is one of the distinctive properties of human language that we have already known, by which we mean the ability of native speakers of a language to produce and understand new forms in their language. Even… … Read the rest

INTRODUCTION According to Wikipedia, “a sentence is a group of words that are put together to mean something. A sentence is the basic unit of language which expresses a complete thought. It does this by following the grammatical rules of… … Read the rest

A morpheme can be defined as the smallest, indivisible and meaningful unit of a language. Morphology of English, on the other hand can be defined as the study of how the morphemes are combined to form the higher unit, called… … Read the rest

It could be argued that it is people that come in contact but not languages; but because of the vital role of language in such contact situations, the term “language in contact” has been preferred. Languages influence each other when… … Read the rest

There are many ways of creating new words in English. Some of these include: affixation, compounding, zero derivation, stress shift, clipping, acronym, blending, and back formation, adoption of brand names as common words, onomatopoeia and borrowing. In this brief essay,… … Read the rest

Every language exists primarily as a speech and little wonder users of English as a second language (ESL) usually encounter more difficulties in the area of phonology. There are quite a number of sounds that are present in English but… … Read the rest