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Abstract
This study is a morphological investigation of word formation strategies in Nigerian Pidgin. It intends to examine and give a morphological account of the processes involved in word formation in Nigerian pidgin. Nigerian Pidgin has attracted a lot of scholarly attention in recent years. However most of these studies have focused largely on the social function of Nigerian Pidgin as an instrument of multilingual communication. Little or no attention has been paid to the morphology of word formation in the language. This is the major motivation for this research. The study adopts the theoretical framework of Dixon (1997) “Basic Linguistic Theory” (BLT), which is a natural framework for study and description of natural language data. Data for the study were elucidated from both primary and secondary sources. The primary sources consisting of live radio programs in Nigerian pidgin, and the secondary sources consisting of library materials. The study among other findings reveals that Nigeria pidgin like every other living language manifest certain word formation processes common to universal languages. These strategies among other processes include; Euphemism, reduplication, affixation, and compounding. These processes linguistically reflect the cognitive and socio-cultural knowledge of the speakers and their immediate ethno multilingual society.
