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Verbs of perception has been ignored over the years by Ukwuani Language speakers. The term "verbs of perception" such as hear, taste, smell, look, listen, feel e.t.c has not been given adequate attention by linguistics scholars. The number of basic perceptual verbs differ across various languages.The objective of this research is to identify and analyze perceptual verbs in Ukwuani Language syntactically. The theoritical framework employed in this research is Lexical semantics. I collected the data used in the analysis of this research from competent native speaker of Ukwuani Language. The method of data collection was through an oral interview where the informants participated. This research categorized perceptual verbs in Ukwuani into five classes which are, verbs for seeing, verbs for hearing, verbs for tasting, verbs for smelling, verbs for feeling. Ukwuani Language highly exhibit a great number of perceptual verbs and these verbs tend to be ambiguous. Unlike other Languages that combine sensory activities, Ukwuani language have different terms for each of the basic perceptual verb. All perceptual verbs in Ukwuani are expressed in relation to the sense organs.
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