Verbs of Harvesting and Wedding Ceremony in Nepali, Awadhi and English

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Verbs of Harvesting and Wedding ceremony in Nepali, Awadhiand English"makes a comparative study of the verbs used to refer to pre-harvesting andharvesting, and pre-wedding, wedding and post-wedding in the Nepali, Awadhi andEnglish languages. All the data were collected through informal talks, unstructuredinterviews and focused group discussions (FGD) with the native speakers of all threelanguages. Altogether 80 informants were used for the study. The main finding of thisstudy is that there were the highest number of verbs in the Nepali language in allactivities and theleast verbs were found in the English language but Awadhi had moreverbs than English and less than Nepali. This thesis has four chapters: Introduction, Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation,and Findings and Recommendations. The first chapter containsgeneral background,review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study.Likewise, the second chapter includes sources of data, population of the study, samplingprocedure, research tools, and process of data collection andlimitations of the study.Similarly, the third chapter consists of the analysis and interpretation of the data obtained.Lastly, the fourth chapter comprises of findings and recommendations of the study.