Negative and Interrogative Transformation in English and Morangia Tharu

Abstract

The thesis entitled “Negative and Interrogative Transformation in English and Morangia Tharu” is an attempt to identify the rules of negative and interrogative transformation in the Morangia Tharu Language and to compare these rules with those of English. The researcher availed both the primary and secondary sources of data. The sample population of the study consisted of 54 Morangia Tharu native speakers who were selected for the study by using stratified random sampling procedure to elicit required data. The interview questionnaire was developed as are search tool for literate, illiterate and educated informants. It was found that the number, person and gender do not affect in the use of negative marker while transforming positive assertive sentence into negative ones in Morangia Tharu language. English negative marker ‘not’ is used after auxiliary verb whereas Morangia Tharu negative marker ‘nai’ is used before auxiliary verb. The negative imperative in English is formed by putting ‘do not’ or ‘don’t’ at the beginning of the sentence where as the negative imperative in Morangia Tharu is formed by putting only ‘nai’ before the verb either in the middle of the sentence or in the beginning of the sentence. English Yes/no questions begin with an auxiliary verb but Morangia Tharu language has intonation question. The intonation pattern is changed falling into rising in speech form to form Morangia Tharu yes/no question. The wh-word in English occurs at the beginning of the sentence where as the equivalent of English wh-word in Morangia Tharu language occurs after the subject. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one deals with general background,statement of the problem, objectives of the study, hypothesis, significance of the study, delimitations of study and operational definition of the key terms. Chapter two deals with review of related literature and conceptual framework which consist of review of related literature, implications of review for the study and theoretical framework of the thesis.Chapter three is related to methods and procedure of the study which deals with design of the study, population and sample of the study, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation procedure. Chapter four consists of analysis and interpretation of results and chapter five includes summary, conclusions and implications.