Pronominal in Rajbangsi and English

Abstract

This present work contains the contrastive analysis of Rajbangsi and English pronominal systems. The languages corpus of English are collected from the secondary sources, whereas Rajbangsi pronominal corpus are collected from Charpane of Jhapa. Direct observation and interviews have been the sources of collecting language corpus. Secondary sources have been used to get some information of Rajbangsi people and their language. The findings show that English lacks honorificity in pronouns, whereas Rajbangsi lacks indefinite pronouns. In other contexts, systems of pronominal markings are different. English lacks ergative markers, whereas it exists in Rajbangsi. First chapter deals with Introduction that mainly consists of general background, Rajbangsi people, Rajbangsi and English, literature review, objectives of the study, significance of the study and hypothesis of the study. Second chapter contains methodology, whereas chapter three deals with analysis and interpretation. Findings and recommendations are included in Chapter four, which is followed by references and appendices.