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Item Verbal Affixation in English and Nepali(Faculty of English Education, 2015) Raut, BhupendraThe dissertation entitled 'Negative and Interrogative Transformation in English and Jhagar Language: A Comparative Study' is the first dissertation on Jhagar language which attempts to identify the process of negative and interrogative transformation in Jhagar language and compare and contrast them with of English. The researcher collected data from both primary and secondary sources. Using stratified random sampling procedure, the researcher divided 50 Jhagar native speaker above 15 years of age belonging to Dangraha VDC of Morang district into two groups-literate and illiterate,each group consisting of 25 Jhagar native speakers. He took structured interview to collect data for the illiterate group and a set of questionnaire was prepared for literate group. Then, by means of the analysis and interpretation of the responses provided by the study population, the researcher found the common responses from the both groups. It was found that the process of Jhagar negative and interrogative transformation were found out and those of English were divided from secondary sources. The major findings in a nutshell are: 'ma' is the negative marker in Jhagar language; other markers-'malla','malli', 'polo', 'poli', 'poldas' also sometimes used but they are optional,whereas English negative marker is 'not' which is used in all situation . Jhagar negative imperative marker is formed by placing the negative marker 'ma'before the verb and after the subject and 'malla' or 'malli' or 'polo' are used at the end of the verb, whereas English negative imperative is formed by placing'do not' or 'don't' at the beginning of the sentence; Jhagar yes\no question isformed by using rising intonation whereas English yes\no question is formedby placing the auxiliary verb at the beginning of the sentence; Jhagar wh-wordin most cases occurs after the subject, whereas English wh-word occurs at thebeginning of the sentence. 11 The dissertation is divided into four chapters. They are introduction,methodology, analysis and interpretation, and findings, recommendation and pedagogical implications. Chapter one encompasses general background, literature review,objectives of the study, significance of the study and definition of the specific terms. Chapter two deals with methodology adopted for the study under which sources of data, sampling procedure, research tool, process of data collection, the limitations of the study and the definition of the specific terms are presented. Chapter three is the most important chapter that includes analysis and interpretation of data. Chapter four consists of the findings, recommendation and pedagogical implications.Item Verbal affixation in English, Nepali and Bajhangi(Department of English Education, 2011) Joshi, JayakrishnaThe present study entitled “Verbal Affixation in Bjhangi, Nepali and English” aimed to identify verbal affixation system in the Bajhangi dialect and compare and contrast the verbal affixes and the rules for verbal affixation in the Bajhangi, Nepali and English languages. Questionnaire and interview schedule were used to collect the required data. The Bajhangi native speakers were the primary resources of data and different books, journals and research reports were the secondary sources of data. On the basis of analysis and interpretation of data, it is found that Bajhangi dialect has different verbal affixations than Nepali and English. Bajhangi, Nepali and English have only person and number marker suffixes. Bajhangi lacks infixation system, it is also the case in Nepali and English as well. English has two tense marker suffixes but in Bajhangi and Nepali have three tense marker suffixes. This study consists of four chapters. Chapter first is an introductory one, which deals with the general background of the study, linguistic scenario of Nepal, the English language and its importance in Nepal, an introduction to Bajhangi dialect, affixation, review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Likewise, the second chapter deals with the methodology applied to conduct the study. It consists of the sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, research tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, the third chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of the raw data obtained from the respondents. The chapter four deals with the findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications of this study.Item Verbal Affixationinenglish and Baitadeli(Faculty of Education, 2010) Charmakar, JanakABSTRACTThe present study entitled “Verbal Affixation in English and Baitadeli” aims atfinding out to identify verbal affixes in Baitadeli dialect, to point out similaritiesand differences in the verbal affixation of English and Baitadeli and to suggestsome pedagogical implications on the basis of findings of the study. To carry outthe research work, the researcher collected the data distributing the questionnairesto eighty native speakers of Baitadeli from two VDCs; Ganjari and Shibaling of,Baitadi district by using judgmental non-random sampling procedure. Thestudyshowed that both English and Baitadeli have the verbal affixation systems. Bothlanguages have only verbal suffixes not prefixes and infixes, but both have onlyone verbal prefix i.e.notin English and–nāiin Baitadeli. English has less verbalsuffixes than that of Baitadeli. In English /-ing / is only the continuous suffix forverb but Baitadeli has /-lār/,/-lāθ /, /-lārek/ are continuous suffixes for the verb.This study containsfour chapters.Chapter one includes general background,review ofthe related literature, objectives of the study and significance of thestudy. Chapter two dealswith methodology adopted in carrying out the research. Itcontains the sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, toolsand process of datacollection, limitation of the study.Chapter three consists of theanalysis and interpretation of the data. The data was collected through thequestionnaire and analyzed. The parallel interpretation between English andBaitadeli was done in this chapter.Chapter four incorporates the major findings ofthe study on the basis of analysis and interpretation of the data. It also deals withsome recommendations made on the basis of findings ofthestudy.