Re-Examination of Synonymy in the Standard Igbo

This study examines synonymy in Standard Igbo (SI) to empirically determine if absolute synonyms actually exist in SI. By the application of cognitive linguistic theory and by adopting a descriptive survey method, the study tries to ascertain the factual behavior of synonyms in SI. The data used for...

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Main Authors: Gloria Tochukwu Okeke, Boniface Monday Mbah, Chukwuma Onyebuchi Okeke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-03-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020914652