Semantic Analysis of Tamang and English Verbs

Abstract

This Study entitled A Semantic Analysis of English and Tamang Verbsdealswith the systematic analysis of some verbs in the English and Tamang Languages. The data was collected from primary as well as different secondary sources. To collect data from primary sources such ascheck list, structured questionnaire and unstructured interviews were used. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted in terms of correlation of meaning, divergence and convergence of meaning, semantic inclusion and semantic overlapping. Themain findings of this study show that the English and Tamang verbs have complete correlation of meaning in a very few cases and there is high degree of presence of divergence and convergence of meanings across languages. The lack of total semantic overlapping and equivalences in the semantic system of selected words in these two languages was also found. This study has been divided into four chapters: The first chapter ‘introduction ’includes general background, review of the related literature, and objectives of the study, significance of the study and definition of the specific terms. Chapter two ‘methodology’ includes sources of data collection,sampling procedure,tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the data.Chapter three includes the ‘analysis and interpretation of the collected data’.Chapter four includes the findings and recommendations.