April 2011

Ibibio predicative copular constructions

  The Ibibio language is a member of the lower cross group of languages within the (New) Benue-Congo sub-family of the Niger-Congo family. It is predominantly spoken in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Ibibio has two types of copular construction; a locative copular construction and a predicative copular one. This paper provides a descriptive account of the predicative sub type of copular construction in Ibibio and...

Author(s): Ogbonna Anyanwu

April 2011

L2 acquisition of Spanish clitic case morphology: A generative approach

  The present study has investigated the phenomenon of morphological variability in interlanguage grammars. Current L2 research does not seem to agree on whether erroneous morphological forms noticeable even in advanced and end-state. L2 grammars are due to an underlying syntactic impairment or learners’ performance limitations. The use of Spanish direct and indirect object pronouns (known as clitics) by...

Author(s):   Maurizio Santoro