Summary
The work is an attempt to respond positively to the current trends of intellectualism from the point of view of language. It is the synchronic study revealing the similarities of genetically unrelated languages, which are contained in the linguistic structures of the languages under study. The Urhobo language was chosen to be worked upon comparatively by implication contrastively at the morphological level. It is presumed, in this work, that the language under a lot in the processes of word–formation, and it is only through an extensive research study that such an assumption can be affirmed. The work, therefore, investigated some processes of forming words in Urhobo, which include:acronyms, affixation, alternation, backformation, blending, borrowing, clipping, coinage, compounding and reduplication. It, thus, looked at literature related to the topic, to enhance the effectiveness of some arguments. For a comparative analysis of the word-formation processes in Urhobo, examples of the process in the language were drawn. The researcher employed the descriptive analysis method in the analysis of his data. The approach is adopted, because, Nida emphasizes the idea that linguistic features and systems must be descriptive as they are – that is clearly (23). Based on this assertion, data for description and analysis were collected. So, these processes were compared in the two languages: Urhobo, similarities and differences were realized and remarks were given. From the description, analysis and interpretation of the morphological processes in the language under the study, the researcher comes up with some findings above.
