A Semantic Analysis of English and Sampang Verbs
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Department of Education English
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The thesis entitled ‘A Semantic Analysis of English and Sampang Verbs’ attempts
to analyze some English and Sampang Verbs Correlation in terms of their meaning.
The main purpose of this study is to analyze the English and Sampang verbs mainly
on the basis of one to one correlation of meaning and convergence and divergence
of meaning. To accomplish the objective of the study Sampang native speakers were
taken as the main informants for eliciting the data. They were selected using
judgemental sampling procedure and interviewed according to prepared interview
schedule but English data were taken from secondary sources. The selected English
and Sampang verbs have been described in contexts. Then, the meaning of those
verbs have been analyzed following componential analysis approach. The main
findings of the research study is that there are inherent differences in the semantic
systems of English and Sampang verbs. This study shows that the Sampang language
has more verbs of seeing, touching, cutting and breaking. It has also been found that
the the suffix ‘-ma’ is added at end of the root of Sampang verbs referring to seeing,
touching, cutting and breaking.
This thesis has four chapters. They are introduction, methodology, analysis and
interpretation and findings and recommandations. The first chapter consists of
general background, literature review, objectives of the study, significance of the
study and definition of the specific terms. Similarly, the second chapter includes
sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, research tools, process
of data collection and limitations of the study. Likewise, the third chapter includes
analysis and interpretation of the thesis, which is its main part. Finally, the fourth
chapter consists of findings, recommandations and pedagogical implications that
are very crucial for long voyage of teaching.