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AREAS WITH CONCERN IN THE ENGLISH GRAMMAR (i)Allomorph:  The term, “allomorph” is used to show variations in different bound morphemes that are remarkable for the formation of numbers and also as tense marker in the study of language. Some of these bound morphemes are “s” “ed”, “en” etc. these morphemes are usually conditioned either phonologically or morphologically. The phonologically conditioned allomorphs establish variations within the sound of different morphemes or same bound morpheme in different words. This is particularly relevant in both formation of numbers among verbs and nouns and also indication of certain tenses of different verbs. Allomorph occurs in like manner with alternation of linguistic properties, allophone, consonant mutation and suppletion in the study of the English grammar. The allomorph relevant for the formation of numbers among different nouns is the “s” bound morpheme. This is phonologically conditioned to take variant forms. The “s” allomorph

EVOLUTION OF HUMAN TONGUES: MOTHER TONGUE AS ROUTE TO THE TRACE OF HUMAN HISTORICAL GENESIS By Onyeji Nnaji. Source : Journal of Linguistics, Language and Igbo Studies. V.1; No.1. Pages 113-149.                                               Abstract The leading novelist and critique in Kenya, James Ngugi Wa Thiongo, noted that “languae is the carrier of culture”. Since culture is the totality of the life of any people – the same also which derived its root from the people’s history – having language as the conveyor belt – history and language become interwoven and closely tied. It is pertinent to note that as a language user leaves a particular language community to another, the language in his possession changes its forms; sometimes sounds, codes and meaning. When this happens, the same language does not lose completely every possible feature that traces its root to its original source. By this view, this paper suggests that any language whose features are found in the