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| Title: | The History of Nigerian Linguistics A Preliminary Survey |
| Authors: | Okolo, Bertram A. |
| Issue Date: | 1981 |
| Publisher: | University of Kansas. Linguistics Graduate Student Association |
| Extent: | 5046142 bytes |
| Type: | Working Paper |
| Series/Report no.: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics; |
| Abstract: | The scientific study of a language may be divided, on the simplest analysis, into two parts: first, the collection of words to form a vocabulary or a dictionary; second, the investigation of the ways in which words are shaped, transformed, and grouped to indicate particular thoughts, to form a grammar of the language. Early work on a language generally terminated in the production of a dictionary and a grammar. But the earliest students of Nigerian languages faced a preliminary problem before they could begin any study--they had to discover what languages existed, and how extensive geographically, and important socially, each language was. This paper is an attempt to provide a preliminary survey of the early development of Nigerian linguistics. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/558 |
| ISSN: | 1043-3805 |
| Appears in Collections: | Volume 06 (1981), KWPL
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