It has been shown in this paper that the NPE verb phrase is sharply different from StdE verb phrase, and because the verb is at the centre of the clause and can determine its argument, it can be argued that NPE whose verbal grammar is radically different from that of English is a separate language.
Although many scholars have pointed out that NPE is a language (Agheyisi 1971 Elugbe and Omamor 1991), not many of them have examined the verb phrase in NPE with a view to showing that its grammar is distinctive.
The paper draws on data collected from 30 Nigerian University Graduates from three ethnolinguistic regions. The major aim of this paper is to demonstrate through the grammar of the verb phrase in Standard English (StdE) and Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) that NPE is a distinct language.
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