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Item The Deixis System in Tharu and English Language: A Comparative Study(Faculty of English Education, 2011) Chaudhary, Dev CharanThe present study entitled "The Deixis System in Tharu and English Language: A Comparative Study" carried out in order to find out the similarities and differences between English and Tharu deictic expressions. The study also suggests some pedagogical implications which will be useful while teaching deictical expression to Tharu learners of English and vice versa. The researcher utilized both primary and secondary data to complete the study. The primary data were collected from native speakers of Tharu, who were selected by judgmental sampling procedure. The interview questions were adopted as a research tool to elicit primary data from both literate and illiterate informants. Then the data were analyzed, interpreted and presented descriptively as well as statistically by using table, charts and illustrations. The major findings of the study show that Tharu person deictic pronouns are more in number than those of English in terms of honorific distinction, number, case, gender and Tharu Deictic personal pronouns have suffixation in plural number unlike in English. The study also shows that English has some tense specific time deixis which is not the case with Tharu. Tharu time deixis is richer than that of English in terms of the names of days and year. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the study which includes general background, literature review, objectives, significance of the study. It also includes the definition of the specific terms used in the research. The second chapter deals with the methodological processes of the study which consist of source of data, sampling procedure, tools for collecting data, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter is concerned with the presentation, analysis, interpretation of the collected data along with the comparison of similar and different cases between English and Tharu deixis. The fourth chapter presents findings as well as some pedagogical implications.Item Deixis Systems in English and Jhagar languages(Faculty of English Education, 2015) Timsina, Phanindra PrasadThe research entitled, 'DEIXIS SYSTEMSIN ENGLISH AND JHAGAR LANGUAGES'is the first research work on the Jangar Language which compares and contrasts the deixis system of English and Jhagar languages.The researcher has collected both primary and secondary sources of the data.Native speakers of Jhagar language are the primary sources and the different books, Journals, magazines and theses are the secondary sources of data. This research has been based on the information and responses of 40 informants including literate and illiterate. The informants for this study have been selected from three VDCs of Sunsari. Among the informants, 20 were literate and 20 were illiterate. The researcher used random sampling procedure to sample the population. The interview was the research tool for data collection.The findings are: Jangar language has more number of first person plural pronoun. There are more inclusive and exclusive forms than English language. The researcher found many words referring to proximate and distance inthe third person pronoun of Jhagar language but it is not found in English. This thesis consists of four chapters.They are;introduction,review of related literature and conceptual framework,methodology, analysis and interpretation and findings and recommendation etc. Chapter one mainly includes introduction that comprises general background of the research,objective of the study,delimitation of the study and ends in operational key words.Chapter two consists of review of the related literature and conceptual framework. Chapter three deals with methods and procedures of the study.It describes about data collection and information obtained from different resources.It deals with sources of data, sampling procedures,and research tools, process of data collection and limitation of the study.Chapter four is x the main body of the research. It includes the presentation of data and analysis and interpretation of the data.It presents the data descriptively and in the form of graphs and tables. It also compares and contrast thedeictic terms in English and Jhagar languages.Chapter five presents the findings of the study and recommendations and the list of pedagogical implication of the study.Item Errors Committed by the Doteli Speakers in English Subject Verb Agreement(Department of English Language Education, 2007) Subedi, RadhikaThe present dissertation entitled "Errors Committed by the DoteliSpeakers in English Subject-Verb Agreement" aims at finding out thesimilarities and differences between the Doteli dialect of the Nepali andthe English languages on Subject-Verb Agreement and the errorscommitted by the Doteli speaking students of grade IX and X. Forcontrastive analysis fifty Doteli speakers were chosen as samplepopulation for collecting data and one hundred students of Grade IX andX of the two schools of Dadeldhura district were taken as samplepopulation for error analysis. Two types of questionnaires wereconducted upon the sample population to collect data. After collectingdata, they were analyzed systematically for contrastive and error analysis. The researcher found that theDoteli dialect has the distinct rulesof Subject-Verb Agreement compared to the English language.DoteliSubject-VerbAgreement is determined with the agreement of person,number, gender and degree of honorificity whereas English is determinedwith person and number only. Furthermore, due to distinct rules ofSubject-VerbAgreement inthe Doteli dialect of Nepali and English languages, the students werelikely to commit more errors in Subject-VerbAgreement. The students ofgrade X werefoundmore proficient than those of grade IX since lessnumber of errors were committed by them in Subject-VerbAgreement. This study has been divided into four chapters: [Introduction,Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation and Findings and Recommendations.]Symbols and alphabets are adopted from Turner’s(1980) except the gliding vowels (IPA). The first chapter deals with a brief introductory survey of therelated area of the study including its objectives and significance. Thesecond chapter includes the methodology adopted during the study. Tocarry out the research fifty Doteli native speakers of Dadeldhura districtwere randomly selected as the primary source of data. The data is analyzed to identity Doteli Subject-Verb Agreement. Likewise, onehundred Doteli speaking students of grade IX and X, selecting fiftystudents from each classwere taken for error analysis.Interview scheduleand written test were primary tools used for data collection. The thirdchapter sheds light onthe analysis and interpretation of data in detail. Thelast chapter comprises of findings and recommendations ofthe study.Item The Forms of Address in Khawas and English(Central department of English Education, 2012) Khawas, Dilip KumarThe present research entitled “The Forms of Address in Khawas and English” made a comparison of the address forms used in the Khawas and English languages. The main objective of the research was to identify how the native speakers of the two languages made a choice of the forms of address, keeping in mind various factors like age, sex, relation, social setting, culture, etc. related to addressor and addressee. The study made a comparison of the forms of address used for consanguineal relations, affinal relations and social relations including strangers, friends, teachers and students, people holding professional position like doctor, nurse, officer and other persons in the Khawas community. The data was collected from 80 native speakers of Khawas in Morang district using purposive sampling procedure. The sources of data for the forms of address in English were based on the previous research carried out in the Department of English Education, different related books and encyclopedias. It is found that the Khawas language is far richer in the forms of address compared to English. This thesis consists four chapters. The first chapter contains general background, review of related literature and objectives of the study. The second chapter includes sources of data, population of the study, sample population, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, the third chapter comprised analysis and interpretation of the data obtained. Finally, the fourth chapter contains the findings, recommendations and pedagogical implementations of the study.Item Sentence Types in Tharu and English(Department of English Education, 2008) Chaudhary, Dilip KumarThis thesis entitled “Sentence Types in Tharu and English” is an attempt to find out sentence types in the Tharu language and to compare and contrast them with those in English. The researcher utilized both primary and secondary sources of data. The sample population of the study consisted of 60 native speakers of Tharu including educated and uneducated. All the informants for this study were selected from Siraha district as the study was based on Saptaria dialect of the Tharu language which is spoken in Siraha, Saptari and Udaypur districts. Among the 60 informants, 30 were educated and equal number of uneducated informants were there. Out of 30, in both groups 15 were male and 15 were female informants. The researcher used purposive/judgmental non-random sampling procedure to sample the population. The interview questionnaire for uneducated and written questionnaire for educated population were the research tools for data collection. On the basis of the collected data the analysis and interpretation was done descriptively and comparatively with the help of tables, diagrams and illustrations. From the analysis it was found that Saprariya dialect of Tharu has four types of sentences on the basis of formal and functional properties and three types of sentences on the basis of constructional properties as in English and each type of sentence has distinct markers and identification as in English. The thesis contains altogether four chapters viz. introduction, methodology, analysis and interpretation, and finding and recommendations. The first chapter deals with introduction which consists of general background, languages of Nepal, English sentence, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted for the study. It consists of sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, the third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data. It contains sentence types in the Tharu language with illustrations and comparison of sentence types of the Tharu language with those of English. The fourth chapter deals with the findings and recommendations. It consists of recommendations for pedagogical implications.Item Subject Verb Agreement in english and Chhantyal Languages(Central Departmental of English Education, 2010) Baruwal Chhetri, Thak RajThe present thesis entitled "Subject-verb Agreement in English andChhantyallanguages"aimed to find out subject-verb agreement system inthe Chhantyal language and to compare andcontrast this system with thatoftheEnglish language to find outsimilarities and differences betweenthem and to point out the pedagogical implications. In order to fulfill theobjectives, the researcher collected data from 81Chhantyal nativespeakersliving in Kuinemangale and Gurjakhani VDC of Myagdi district.The speakers for data were chosen using stratified random samplingprocedure. The researcher consulted some Chhantyal language experts:Noonan (2003), Noonan and Bhulunja (2007) and some officials fromNepal Chhantyal Association. The main research tools for this study weretwo sets of questionnaire. Findings showed that Chhantyal verbs do notagree with the categories of gender, number, person, adjectives andattributes. But they agree with honorific pronouns and tense-aspectsystem. The main difference between the English and Chhantyal languageis that English verbs agree with subject but verbs do not agree withsubjects in the Chhantyal language. This thesis comprises four chapters.Chapter Onedeals with introduction.It further presents the rules of S-V agreement found in English. It alsoincludes the review of the related literature, objectives of the study andsignificance of the study.Chapter Twodeals with the sources of data,samplingprocedure, process of data collection and limitations of thestudy. The researcher used both primary and secondary sources of dataand stratified random sampling procedure was applied to carry out theresearch. Chapter Threedeals with the analysis and interpretation of data.Bilingual comparison wasmade to find out the similarities anddifferences of S-V agreement system between Chhantyal and Englishlanguages.Chapter Fourdeals with the findings and recommendations ofthe study. The findings were drawnfrom the analysis and interpretationof the data carried out in chapter three and recommendations are made onthe basis of the findings. xItem Verbal Affixation in Maithili and English(Department of English Education, 2008) Thakur, Shree ChandraThe present study entitled "Verbal Affixation in Maithili and English has been carried out with one of the objectives to identify the verbal affixes and the rules in the Maithili language and also to identify the similarities and differences in verbal affixation in Maithili and English. This research is based on 90 native speakers of Maithili including illiterate, literate and educated. The researcher used the stratified random sampling procedure to sample the population. The interview questionnaire for literate and illiterate and written questionnaire for educated were the research tools for data collection. On the basis of the collected data, the analysis has been done. After analysis, it was found that Maithili has more number of verbal affixes in comparison to English and they are more complex than those of English. Both the Maithili and English languages have more or less similar affixation systems. This research study consists of four chapters. Chapter One deals with general background of contrastive analysis, morphology, verbal morphology an overview of the Maithili language, word formation processes in English. Verbal affixation in English, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study are also included. Chapter Two states the methodology which was followed in the study. It deals with the sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, research tool, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter Three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data, with appropriate references. Chapter Four deals with findings and recommendations. The researcher first gives to identify verbal affixes of the Maithili language on the basis of analysis of data collected and compared and contrasted them with those of English. On the basis of findings, some recommendations have been made for pedagogical implications.Item Verbs of Harvesting and Wedding Ceremony in Nepali, Awadhi and English(Department of English Education, 2008) Khan, TasauwarThis thesis entitled "Verbs of Harvesting and Wedding ceremony in Nepali, Awadhiand English"makes a comparative study of the verbs used to refer to pre-harvesting andharvesting, and pre-wedding, wedding and post-wedding in the Nepali, Awadhi andEnglish languages. All the data were collected through informal talks, unstructuredinterviews and focused group discussions (FGD) with the native speakers of all threelanguages. Altogether 80 informants were used for the study. The main finding of thisstudy is that there were the highest number of verbs in the Nepali language in allactivities and theleast verbs were found in the English language but Awadhi had moreverbs than English and less than Nepali. This thesis has four chapters: Introduction, Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation,and Findings and Recommendations. The first chapter containsgeneral background,review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study.Likewise, the second chapter includes sources of data, population of the study, samplingprocedure, research tools, and process of data collection andlimitations of the study.Similarly, the third chapter consists of the analysis and interpretation of the data obtained.Lastly, the fourth chapter comprises of findings and recommendations of the study.