Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

IBI 407 — Issues in the Syntax of Ibibio language

IBI department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• justify the grammatical indicators in tense, aspect, mood as well as vowel relationships
• argue for the existence of ideophones
• support the argument for pronominalisation
• account for the existence of relativisation
• discuss relexification in relation to binding principles of GB
• argue for Ibibio focus constructions, and

Course contents

Current topical and relevant issues in the syntax of the Ibibio language – tense, aspect, vowels and their relationships. Ideophones. Pronominalisation, Relativisation, Reflexivisation, Nominalisation. Adjectives. Adverbs. Verbs. Focus constructions. Serial verb constructions.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study IBI 407.

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