Subject Verb Agreement in english and Chhantyal Languages

Abstract

The 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. x