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Item A Comparative Linguistic Study:English and Lhomi Kinship Terms(Department of English Education, 2007) Bhote, ChhiringThis thesis entitled ‘A Comparative Linguistic Study: English andLhomi Kinship Terms: presents a clear picture of comparative studybetween English and Lhomi kinship terms. The present study has been donethrough both consanguineal and affinal types across five generations fromboth perspectives Viz. male and female ego. The kinship relations of theEnglish and Lhomi have also been studied by both appellative andaddressive uses. The Lhomi data were taken from the native speakers of Lhomi byapplying questionnaires and unstructured interviews. The researcher alsocollected data from the native speakers of English available in Kathmanduvalley. So altogether there are eighty respondents. To obtain required dataquestionnaires were distributed to the primary sources using purposivesampling procedure. He further consulted secondary sources such as books,magazines, journals, theses andinternet related to his topic. The major findings of the study are that the Lhomi language is rich interms of kinship terms in comparison to the English language. The Englishlanguage does not make distinction between the male and female ego exceptthe two terms husband and wife, on the other hand the Lhomi language isfound to interchange the kinship terms depending upon the male and femaleego, i.e. it makes the distinction between the male and female ego. Thereare so many neutral terms used in the English language which cover multi-relations of the Lhomi language, e.g. the English neutral kinship term isdenoted by eight different terms in the Lhomi language. The study consists of four chapters. Each chapter in turn, has beendivided into varioussub-chapters. The first chapter consists of general background, literature review,and objectives of the study, significance of the study and definitions ofvarious terminologies. Similarly, the second chapter contains sources of data research toolsandprocess of data gathering, sample population and sampling procedureand limitation of the study. Likewise, third chapter includes analysis and interpretation of thedata, which is main part of the thesis. Finally, the fourth chapter consists of findings, recommendations andpedagogical implications that are very crucial for Voyage of teaching. Inmain findings there is no one to one correspondence between the Englishand Lhomi kinship terms since there is semantic overlapping between oramong them. They differ from the perspectives of male/female ego andelder/younger than the ego.Item Pronominals in the English and Dura Languages:A Comparative Linguistic Study(Department of English Education, 2007) Gautam, Kasi RajThis research is entitled“Pronominals in English and DuraLanguages: AComparativeLinguistic Study”. The main purposeof the study were to find out Dura Pronominals in relation toEnglish and then, to find out similarities and differences betweenEnglish and Dura Pronominals. The study was also focused onenlisting pedagogical implications of the findings of the study. Toaccomplish this task, the researcher elicited data from bothprimary and secondary sources. The sample populationcomprisedof Dura native speakers from Chandrewore and Duradada VDCsin Lamjung district and Pokhara Metropolitan City in Kaskidistrict. Sixty Dura native speakers were selected throughstratified random sampling in the selectedplaces. Two types ofresearchtools i.e. questionnaire and interview schedulewereused. Major findings of the studyshow that theDura Languagehas more number of pronominals than English due tothepresenceof suffixation, alternatives and pluralization in some relative andinterrogative pronominals; the suffix ‘/-domo/’ is plural marker inDura pronominals; there is suffixation system in Durapronominals but such type of system is not found in English;noseparate pronominals for male and femalearefound;in theDura,there is only onethird person singular personal pronominal but intheEnglish language, there are separate third person singularpersonal pronominals for both genders;intheDura language, baseforms determine whether reflexive pronominals is singular orpluralwhereasintheEnglish language, suffixes determine for this matter. The suffix ‘/-ni/’ is inserted with subjective personalpronominals to form possessive pronominals in Dura but inEnglish there is different system for that. This research work consists of four chapters. Chapter one isintroduction. It deals with preliminary information of languagesofNepal, introduction of pronominals and contrastive analysis,review of related literature, objectives of study and significance ofstudy and others. Chapter two includes the methodology adopted for thestudy with tools and process of data collection, samplingprocedure and limitations of study. Chapter three is very important which is related with thepresentation, analysis and interpretation of obtained data. Thedata are presented, analyzed and compared descriptively with thehelp of tables and illustrations. The findings show thesimilaritiesand differences between Dura and English pronominals. Chapterfour presents the summary of findings, recommendations andpedagogical implicationsof the study.