Uda are a Lower Cross River language of Nigeria. The two varieties are quite distinct. Uda was the subject of a month-long intensive field methods course through CoLang (the Institute on Collaborative Language Research) in 2012 at the University of Kansas. The aim of the study is to determine the Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunction in Uda. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were set out to examine the: uses and function of subordinating conjunction in Uda language, and relevance and function of Coordinating conjunction in Uda language. Conjunction joins two or more items of equal syntactic importance, while subordinators are conjunctions that join an independent clause and a dependent one, and also introduce adverb clauses. The study will contribute immensely to knowledge in language study because it has brought home to the reader the basic information he/she needs, at least, to some extent, as far as conjunctions in English are concerned.
1.1 Introduction
In this section, Coordinating and Subornating Conjunction in Uda is discussed, with relevant and recent citations. As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the aim and objectives of the study. Others are significance of the study, scope of work, research hypothesis and questions, limitation of the study and definition of terms.