Abstract

This research entitled ‘A Comparative study of Reduplication in Kenyang and Ejagham aim at comparing Reduplication in both Languages, to achieve this aim   we identify the various forms of Reduplication which are Total and Partial in these languages and then compared them, We also looked at how the tones behaves in their reduplicated states.

The data use for this work include both Primary and Secondary data. Primary method includes the Elicitation of Various forms from Pidgin- English through the monolingual approach with English as intermediate language.

The secondary method involves the use of written sources and the internet. The data collected was later analyzed, as findings it was discovered that both Kenyang and Ejagham have Reduplication but Kenyang has only total reduplication and partial reduplication does not exist and the tones in reduplicated words in Kengany do not change, while in Ejagham it has two forms of Reduplication both Total and Partial reduplication and their tones change. The work then accounts for using the morpheme doubling theory to account for the data.

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