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Jacqueline Siamba Gabrielle DIOMANDE-KEITA.

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An utterance act involves using grammatical markers, such as, markers of tense, aspect, modality and determination. Specific grammatical forms mark the operation types the utterer carries out. The aim of this paper is to highlight the complexity of uncompleted aspect marking, from Standard English (SE) to Nigerian Pidgin (NP), and conversely. Based on Antoine Culioli’s “enunciative operations theory”, this paper analyses be+ing as an uncompleted aspect marker, identifies its NP equivalents and accounts for their use. NP markers involved in this uncompleted aspect marking process seem to be different from SE be+ing; they are markers driving meanings by themselves and do not lend themselves to some meaning variations as their SE equivalents would do.

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