The Structure And Function Of The Dholuo Prepositional Phrase: An X- Bar Approach

This study examines the prepositional phrase in Dholuo. It is anchored on the following three objectives: to describe the structure of the PP in Dholuo, to identify the syntactic functions of the PP in Dholuo and to explain the PP in Dholuo within the X-bar. The study employed the descriptive research design which is qualitative in nature because it determines and reports things the way they are. Sampling for this study was done in stages. First, the study employed stratified sampling to arrive at 37 secondary schools out of the 40 secondary schools in Rarieda Sub- county.  Random sampling was…