Intraference in the Nominal Expressions of Educated Nigerian Users of English

Intraference is used in this paper as a more economical for Selinker s overgeneralization of linguistic materials and semantic features Richards and Sampson s intralingual interference and Labov s internal principle of linguistic change Library research questionnaires and the record of live linguistic events by educated Nigerians were used to gather data from 2004 to 2013 with a view to establishing morphemic intraference variations between ENEm and SBE It was found that educated Nigerians overstretch plurality rule redeploy affixes clip and blend to fabricate lexical items that may not be found in SBE and standard dictionaries These morphological features which are not necessarily vulgar errors of ignorance but the outcomes of creativity and level of competence engendered by some psycho-sociolinguistic dynamics distinguish ENE from SBE and American Englis

Shadiya Mohamed Saleh Baqutayan Verbal ‘Intraference’ in Educated Nigerian English (ENE)

‘Intraference’ is used here for Selinker’s ‘the overgeneralization of target language rules’ (1984, p. 37), Richards and Sampson’s ‘internal language transfer’(1984, pp.6-13)  and Labovian internal principle/factors of linguistic change/variability (1994). The purpose is to achieve economy and precision of terms, which is preferred in linguistics. Library research, questionnaires, observation and recording of live linguistic events were used to gather examples from 2004 to 2012 to substantiate the incidence of verbal intraference and establish its enabling psycho-sociolinguistic causes. Verbal intraference is the (re)deployment of affixation and conversion processes to create verbs that may not be found in SBE and standard dictionaries. It was found that educated Nigerian deploy inflectional, derivational morphemes and conversion to fabricate verbal intraference variations, which distinguish Nigerian English morphology from SBE and other international varieties of English. Keywords:  Intraference, Verbal intraference, Educated Nigerian English, ESL, Psycho-sociolinguistic, Affixation