NOUN

This study begin with the first chapter, this chapter shows the historical background of the language and the people. This chapter also went further to talk about the purpose of study, the limitation of study, the method of data collection and also the significance of the study to linguistics in general. The second chapter, features the review of relevant literature as regards to the noun phrases in Etuno language. The third chapter, examines the theoretical framework used in the which is the x-bar theory. The fourth chapter depicts the presentation of data and the analysis of the data using the x-bar theoretical framework. This chapter focuses on examining the internal structure. This chapter focuses on examining the internal structure of the Etuno noun phrase with the aim of investigating how different constituents that make up the noun phrase are combined together. The major results of this study are: - that the language is an headfirst language. - that the language is a tone language. - that the language share linguistic affinity with Igarra and most importantly Yoruba. - With Etuno language shares no linguistic affinity with any of it neigbhouring villages such as Uneme, Okpe Somorika, Ssasaro etc not even with any language in the whole of Edo State.