A Semantic Analysis of English and Thulung Rai Verbs

Abstract

The thesis entitled "A Semantic Analysis of English and Thulung Rai Verbs" attempts to find out the semantic similarities and differences between the verbs of the English and Thulung languages. The data for the English verbs were collected from various dictionaries and thesauruses. Similarly, the data for the Thulung verbs were collected through both the structured and unstructured interviews with fifty Thulung Rai native speakers from the different parts of Jhapa district. Monthly magazines and dictionaries of the Thulung Rai language were also consulted as the secondary sources. The collected data were compared and contrasted for the semantic description of both languages on the basis of convergence and divergence, one to one correlation, semantic inclusion and semantic overlapping of meaning. It was found that English verbs have wider range of coverage in meaning than the Thulung verbs. The similarities between the English and Thulung Rai verbs are rare. In terms of semantic equivalence as is the universal linguistic rule so was the case of semantic overlapping and equivalence system in the both languages. This thesis contains four chapters: Introduction; Methodology; Analysis and Interpretation; and Findings and Recommendations. The first chapter contains general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study. The second chapter contains methodology in which there are source of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitation of the study. Similarly, the third chapter contains the analysis and interpretation of the data collected. Finally, the fourth chapter contains the findings and recommendations.