The Phenomena Of Tense And Aspect In Ilaje Of Yoruba

CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0    INTRODUCTION    The concept of time is universal because the units of time are extra-linguistic i.e they exist independently of the grammar of any language. In other words the expression of time in language is universal, whereas the means of expressing time is language specifics. Hence each language employs different linguistic means to express time.     Generally, the writer or speaker of a language may apply lexical means to express time, he or she may apply temporal adverbs, adjectives, substantive preposition, conjunctions, particles and adverbs or g…