Chapter One

1.0      Introduction/Background of the Study 

 The importance of language in human society has attracted great scholarly attention. Various studies have been carried out with a view to determining the structure of language. Language is dynamic, this dynamic nature calls for constant and persistent research on the nature of every human language, especially the development

processes involved in particular language. 

 However, there are many ramifications in these changes in language especially English Language which a learner of any language must master. For instance auditory habituation could handicap the effect of a second language learner, especially when the structure of the mother tongue (MT) has been internalized for a long period before learning the second languages. 

Based on this assumption, it is necessary to analyze the similarities and differences between the learner’s mother tongue (MT) and the target language (TL) with a view to alleviating the problems in second language

learning (SLL). 

 Research has shown that there are difficulties associated with learning a second language, because the  inbuilt structure of the mother tongue influences  learning of the second language. The structure of the first language, in many cases is at variance with the structure of the second language. This variance makes the learner transliterate this target language after the structure of the first. He transfers the accent of this first language (MT) to the pronunciation of the second language (TSL). In so doing, communicative competence is hindered, as the expected message not successful conveyed. Word-order pattern of the target language is distorted. 

 The major concern of this study is to make a” contrastive analysis of the word-formations of English and Igbo Verbs”. With reference to Affixation, Derivational, Inflectional, Verbal Ablaut and verb Extension. centered on making a “contrastive analysis of the word-formations of English and Igbo Verbs”. In the areas of Affixation, Derivational, Inflectional, Verbal Ablaut and Verb Extension. Verb is defined as “the heart and life of a sentence which denotes action and deed” (Ifensor 22). Orji adds that “verbs of the English language are words which fit into an inflectional verbal paradigm

(20). He further buttresses that: 

English verbs are divided into finite and non finite verbs. Finite verbs consist of lexical (main) verb and auxiliary verb. Lexical verb is made up of transitive and intransitive verbs. Auxiliary verb is divided into two, namely: primary and modal auxiliary. The non-finite verb is made up of infinitive, gerund and participle (21).

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