Syntactic movement operations and ellipsis in Nigerian English

Authors

  • Olohy Ejembi PhD Candidate in English Phonology, University of Abuja

Keywords:

ellipsis, Nigerian English, occurrences, syntactic movement

Abstract

All linguistic theories are meant to give an adequate description of spoken languages. Such descriptions are not a prerogative of any variety of a given language. Descriptivist theory asserts that language should be described as it is used in a given community of speech, not as it (the language) is prescribed to be used. Hence, this paper discusses syntactic movement operations and ellipsis in Nigerian English (NE). The paper presents many examples that show the occurrences of the subjects in Nigerian English. To avoid ascribing a wrong status to errors, the study took about four years - since 2019 - before conclusions were made on the syntactic movement operations and ellipsis in Nigeria English.

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Published

2023-09-22

How to Cite

Ejembi, O. (2023). Syntactic movement operations and ellipsis in Nigerian English. African Journal of Advanced Arts and Humanities, 2(1). Retrieved from https://journals.evonexpublishers.com/index.php/AJAAH/article/view/24

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023)

Section

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