Contrastive Analysis of Inflectional Morphemes in English and Fur Nouns

The aim of this research is to compare and contrast inflectional morphemes of English and Fur languages with a view to identify the areas ofsimilarities and dissimilarities.The researchers have adopted contrastive methodology to conduct this research.They compare and contrast inflectional morphemesin English and Fur languages. The results of the research revealed that the both languages almost share the same inflectional morphemes with which they form their plural nouns and there are irregular nouns in two languages. Moreover, it displays that Fur language has got tonic nouns and morphemes whereas, English language lacks. However, English has got about four inflectional morphemes with which it forms plural nouns; meanwhile, there are eight inflectional morphemes in Fur language that form plural ones. In addition, Fur language characterises by the unique formation of irregular plural by changing initial inflectional morpheme and omitting the final one whereas, English lacks such. The differences in inflectional morphemes between two languages result in problems encountered by the Fur language learners in learning English and vice versa.