An Assessment of Affixation of Igbo Verbs in Goddy Onyekaonwu’s Text “Nwata Rie Awọ”

Abstract

This research work hinges on the assessment of affixation. Affixation forms an integral aspect of word formation processes in most languages of the world, Igbo language inclusive. This paper looks at the pattern and the most frequent affix used in Goddy Onyekaonwu’s text Nwata Rie Awo. Data were drawn from the said book through exclusive reading, lexical items which are affixes where identified and the types of affixes explained. A descriptive approach was employed in this paper. The study observed that such affixes as employed by Goddy Onyekaonwu in the text Nwata Rie Awo performed certain functions such as emphasier, negative markers, inflectional function. The paper opines that owing to the fact that the affixation pattern inherent in any literary work goes a long way in helping the reader to understand the text, further studies of this nature should be undertaken by other scholars in this direction in order to help the readers to understand the text.