Ahmed Umar Livres

Focusing on clausal patterns and functions across five languages, this work provides both a representative corpus and theoretical generalizations. It enhances understanding of linguistic structures and concepts, making significant contributions to both linguistics and pedagogy. By exploring these elements, the book establishes a new frontier in General Linguistics, offering insights that benefit both language learners and scholars.

Gender in Media Discourse. The study investigates how language is used to construct, reconstruct and deconstruct gender

This study compared the grammar of the nominal group in both English and Bura. The study aimed to compare the two languages in order to highlight the salient features of similarity and difference. The comparative analysis was done in two what items make up the NG of each language, and the order in which such items are arranged. Syntactically, English has the basic NG structure of MHQ (modifier + headword + qualifier); Bura has the basic NG structure of HQM (headword + qualifier + modifier). The same items (e.g. nouns, adjectives, etc) generally make up the NG of both English and Bura. The two languages also agree on the syntactic functions of the NG of subject, complement and the adjunct, the infinitival and present participial nominalisations, except on the clausal nominalisation, which is peculiar to English only. ISBN 9783862880997. Linguistics Edition 82. 69pp. 2011.