Pronominals in Engilish and Dhimal

Abstract

present study entitled, "Pronominals in English and Dhimal" attempts to compare and contrast pronominal systems of English and Dhimal. The researcher collected the data by using both primary and secondary sources. The languages corpus of English was collected from the secondary sources Aarts and Aart (1986 p.48-56), whereas Dhimal pronominal corpus was collected from five different places of Damak Jhapa. A major finding of the study shows that Dhimal has honorific label in the first and second person personal pronouns whereas English has no honorific label. There is no distinction between masculine and feminine in the third person singular number in Dhimal but there is distinction between in English. Dhimal has singular, dual and plural distinction whereas English has only singular and plural distinction.

The thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction part of study which consists of general background with many sub-topics, namely a short introduction of English and Dhimal, overview of pronominal system, need and importance of contrastive analysis, transfer theory, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter describes the methodology which includes sources of data collection, 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 interpretation, presentation and comparison of the data. The fourth chapter contains findings, recommendations of the study.