A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NEGATION OF ILAJE AND ITSEKIRI

Student: Ajoke Elizabeth Owosanni
Supervisor: Dr Bola Oshodi
HOD: Prof Temitope Olumuyiwa
Department of Linguistics
Arts
Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State

Abstract

This research has viridly looked into the Comparative analysis of negation of Ilaje and Itsekiri dialect Stating the dierent negative markers in llaje and Iisekiri, This study described the data in relatedness to the intuition of the native speaker's knowledge of the language. The transformatioal generative grammar (TGG) is the framework employed for this research, It is used to analyze the syntactic structure of Ilaje and Itsekiri dialect in this work. To be precise jovermment and Binding Theory will be employed for our framework. Findings revealed that the regative marker for Ilaje dialects is éè while the negative marker for Itsekiri is è

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