AFFIXES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ỤKWỤANI LANGUAGE: A CONTRASTIVE STUDY

Oghiator, Florence Etuwe

School of Languages

College of Education, Agbor, Delta State

ABSTRACT

This paper made a contrastive study of affixes in English language and kwani Language. Information about the two languages were fully discussed. The terms contrastive analysis, morphology and morpheme were explained in detail for proper understanding of the subject matter. From the analysis of the affixes of the two languages, this study showed vividly that remarkable differences abound between English affixes and kwani affixes, and so likely to infer with the learning of English. Affixes English kwani Contrastive