A contrastive Study of Englishand Nobein at the Morphological Level

Abstract

The present study focuses on analyzing and contrasting the morphology of both English and Nobein( Nobein is a branch of Nile Nubian languages which was given this name by Bell(1970). Also the study intends to find out the potential productivities of these processes for pedagogical purposes, which may prove to be useful for native and non- native linguists as well as teachers and learners of English. The data for this study was collected from different sources. The main sources were the informants who supported the researcher with useful information. It is found that English and Nobein reveal similarities as well as differences. The similarities are found in some general universals, such as affixation, compounding and derivations. Differences, on the other hand, appear in the main tendency of Nobein towards inflection, while English depends on compounding more