AKWA IBOM STATE UNIVERSITY JOUNAL OF ARTS

This paper is the first attempt at a detailed work on the problems of adverbials encountered by the Anaang bilinguals in a second language situation. It also assesses the processes of deriving these adverbials. It focuses attention on the syntactic and semantic behaviour of adverbials as distinguished from other parts of speech, especially the Noun and the Adjective. To achieve this purpose, this study was carried out within the theoretical frameworks of Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH). The Contrastive Analysis provides the basis for the contrastive study of the English and Anaang Adverbial Systems in order to bring out their similarities and differences. The researchers do not intend to make a clear-cut demarcation between syntax and semantics, since it is the opinion of the researchers that both of them function together for human utterances to be communicative. Syntax without Semantics would, at best, be a mere string of words devoid of sense or meaning. Therefore, to carefully discuss the syntactic functions of adverbials, a subcategorization of adverbials in terms of time, place, manner, condition, reason/purpose, degree and concession has been done and each category fully accounted for; the semantic functions shall be subsumed at the same time. Finally, in drawing examples for this work, the researchers shall be very meticulous and eclectic so as to be able to cite instances from the different locations where the dialects of Anaang are spoken.

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