1 ENGAGING APPROPRIATE AFFIXATION FOR ENGLISH AND ANAANG LANGUAGES: A MORPHO-SYNTACTIC STUDY AT DISTRIBUTIONAL EQUIVALENCE FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA BEYOND 2020 Susana T. Udoka (Ph.D) and Edenowo T. Enang Abstract This Study: Engaging Appropriate Affixation System for English and Anaang: Amorpho-Syntactic Study at Distributional Equivalence for Education and Development in Nigeria Beyond 2020 which is the first in the area, takes a look at all the morphological processes which are involved in affixation; as well as the application of these processes on syntax-related rank scales in order to account appropriately for affixation as a very important aspect of morphology. It also aims at revealing the possible universals of the two languages in the field of word-formation.. The theoretical frameworks used in this study are the three-in –one tool; contrastive analysis (CA), error analysis (EA)and needs analysis (NA) which are identifiable by the researchers to be effectively operational in revealing the linguistic universals between the two languages. The general assumption here, is that the aspect of similarities will facilitate learning the second language, especially if a rule in L 1 is identical to a rule in L 2 and applied to propagate Educational sensitization that will usher in Development in Nigeria in 2020 and beyond. Keywords: Engaging, Appropriate, Affixation, Morpho-Syntax, Distributional equivalence, Education, Development and Beyond. Anaang is a name which marks dual identification: it identifies a people – the Anaang and their language. As a people, the Anaang are claimed to be the second largest ethnic group after the Ibibio in the present day Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. They number 1.4 million following the 1991 census result. They occupy the North-Western part of Akwa Ibom State with a total of 2.73 sq. kilometres. They are bounded by Abia State in the North, Rivers State in the West, the Ibibio people in the South, East and North-East. According to Greenberg (1963), the Anaang people are semi-Bantu speakers who originated from the Central Benue valley in Nigeria. They are said to have moved through the Northern flank of the Cross River to the Enyong Creek and eventually through the present day Eastern Ibibio (Ikono) land to settle at the location of the present day Abak. Greenberg (1963:84) further claims that the Anaang people were the first wave of the Ibibio speaking people to settle in the present day Ibibio land. Morphological difficulties arise from different processes which an individual undergoes in its word formation. Generally, quite a number of linguists have observed this controversy in the study of Morphology. For instance, Bauer, (1987:1) asserts that “there is at the moment no single ‘theory of word formation’, nor even agreement on the kind of data that is relevant for the conclusion of such a theory (Udom,1999:3). Consequently, affixation, an aspect of word formation, is unique and peculiar to the individual language. Even, in England itself, English was long neglected mainly because it did not have any ‘grammar’. Writers such as Dryden of the latter half of 17th century was said to have complained of the ‘barbarity’ of the English tongue, by which they meant the absence of ‘grammar’ in the form of set rules, on the model of the Latin grammar of the day. The eighteenth century saw a movement towards what was called ‘ascertainment’ of English- the term being used not in the sense of Knowledge Review Volume 33 No. 1, December, 2015: ISSN 1595-2126