CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Introduction
Section ONE
Presentation
1.0 Introduction
Language, as indicated by Chomsky (1957) comprises of associating levels of examination which incorporate phonology, Morphology,semanticsand grammar. This work is embraced chiefly at the degree of grammar.
Grammar has been characterized by different researchers to squeeze into their particular examination and syntactic. The specialist of this work anyway expects to think about grammar as characterized by Essien (1990) which as indicated by him:
… . Analyzes the segment parts or establishes of sentences of a language and the between relatedness of these constituents just as comprising of different marvels relating to the structure and association of sentences in a language; the expressions of the language, the request wherein they happen or should happen and their reliance that produce very much shaped and which means sentences comprise the question of grammar.
Questions are sentences or articulations that are planned to discover ‘when is the activity occurring, what is the activity, which is the activity, for what reason is the move, where the activity happens, who is the entertainer, whose is the activity, to whom is the activity coordinated and to which degree’. In a more specialized feeling of the word, questions are sentences or proclamations that are inquisitive in nature (Radford. 1981; Essien 1990; Haegeman 1994)
1.1 ItuMbonUso and its speakers
ItuMbonUso is utilized in various manners to allude to individuals living in ItuMbonUso clan and the language verbally expressed by individuals. ItuMbonUso is a social and ethnic gathering which is situated on the northern piece of INI neighborhood legislature of AkwaIbom state.
Topographically, they share a typical limit with Bende L.G.A of Abia state. They guarantee to be relatives of Okobo; an ethnic subgroup in AkwaIbom. ItuMbonUso language is yet to achieve a status of a composed language since it doesn’t have a composed orthography. As per Eta Akwa of ItuMbonUso,”a notice On the custom and custom of ituMbonUso clan”,written by NtoengUdoEffiongAkpan “Osungr “, there is a proclivity among ItuMbonUso and Efik language. A gathering among individuals are of the assessment that the name itumbonuso allude to individuals where as the language is called NKARI. In any case, since this speculation has not been checked through deliberate examinations dependent on etymology principles,this research work actually rest in the latest attestation in regards to the situation with ItuMbonUso language concerning the language.
This examination centers around the syntactic investigation of inquisitive designs in ItuMbonUso language utilizing a few parts of Government and Binding hypothesis.
1.3 Linguistic circumstance of ItuMbonUso
ItuMbonUso is a focal cross language and its nearer to Nkari than it is to Ibibio as the graph underneath shows. These dialects shift because of various individual language bunch contacts and distinctive social circumstances the relocating individuals discovered them. Noah (1980;7) ascribes these colloquial contrasts between the different Ibibio gathering of dialects to the quest for more land for development. Thisbrings about unidirectional common clarity among speakers of this language.
Fig1. A little characterization of lower cross Languages
NEW BENUE CONGO
EASTERN BENUE CONGO
BANTOID CONGO
CROSS RIVER
DELTA CROSS
Focal DELTA OGONI LOWER CROSS UPPER CROSS
OBOLO
IKO IBENO CC ORO OKOBO EBUGHU ILUE ENWANG USAHDET
ITU MBON USOEKID ETEBI ENWANG UDA
ITO IBIBIO
NKARI ANAANG
IBUORO EFIK
Connell (1991)
1.4 Statement of exploration issue
Question in some regular dialects has been overlooked by speakers, non-local speakers, including etymologists who have dismissed this images utilized in examining and mentioning in our regular daily existence, despite the fact that individuals use it day by day and guarantee to know or are well learned being referred to arrangement of their language, almost no composed examination work exist in ItuMbonUso which managed investigation of inquiry in ItuMbonUso language.
Scientists like Willie (2013), OgbonnaAnyawu (2012) and Unyime Udoh (2015), have investigated and concentrated on the theme “Questions”, particularly on the part of inquiry arrangement measures. Anyway satisfactory accentuation has not been set on the syntactic examination of inquiry utilizing government restricting hypothesis and the groundbreaking cycles utilized in determining different sorts of inquiries in ItuMbonUso language
