LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:2 February 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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A Contrastive Analysis of Negation in Language and Its Implications for Mwaghavul and English

Judith Makse Patrick, M.Ed. English Education, Ph.D. Scholar
Nanbam Yuwana Ojo, M.Ed., M.A. Early Childhood Studies
Professor Mingcai Sui, Ph.D. Applied Linguistics
Banenat Didam, B.Ed. Technology, M.A. Student

Abstract

This paper is an endeavor to contribute to the field of contrastive analysis of Mwaghavul-English languages. It compares negation in language of the two languages in contact at the syntactic and lexical verb levels. The focus of the paper is restricted to the six personal pronouns in the sentence context presented in English and Mwaghavul in the present simple, simple past and future simple negative tenses.

1. Introduction

The importance of language among human beings cannot be over emphasized. The Oxford Concise English Dictionary (2008) defines language as the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. It also particularly states that the system of communication used by a particular community or country. Nwafor (1997) asserts that language is a human activity that varies without assignable limit as we pass from one social group to the other, because it is purely a historical heritage of all creative effort varies not as consciously, perhaps, but nonetheless as truly as do religions, the beliefs, the customs and the arts of different people.

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Judith Makse Patrick, Ph.D. Scholar, (M.Ed. English Education)
3School of Foreign languages & School of Education Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Renmin Street NO. 5268, Changchun City, Jilin Province, zip code: 130024, China
Corresponding Author’s Email: maksepatrick@yahoo.com

Nanbam Yuwana Ojo, M.Ed., (M.A Early Childhood Studies)
Department of Early Childhood Care & Education, School of Education, Federal College of Education Pankshin, P. M. B. 1027, Plateau State, Nigeria
nanbamyuwana@yahoo.co.uk

Professor Mingcai Sui, Ph.D. (Applied Linguistics)
3School of Foreign languages & 4School of Education Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Renmin Street NO. 5268, Changchun City, Jilin Province, zip code: 130024, China
mingcai5266@yahoo.com.cn

Banenat Didam, M.A Student
(B.Ed. Technology)
School of Education Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Renmin Street NO. 5268, Changchun City, Jilin Province, zip code: 130024, China
didambanenat@yahoo.com
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