Sentence types in english and tamang
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Department of English Education
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This thesis entitled Sentence Types in Tamang and English is an attempt to find out
the sentence types in Tamang language and to compare and contrast them with those
in English. The researcher utilized both primary and secondary sources of data. The
sample population for this study consisted 40 native speakers of Tamang including
educated and uneducated. The informants for this studyhave been selected from two
wards of Itahari sub-metropolitan city. They were from Itahari-2 Pashupati Chowk
and Itahari–5 Pachrukhi Chowk. Specially, here researcher had selectedand given
priority to the seniors informants for the study. The researcher used
purposive/judgmental non-random sampling. Interview and questionnaire for
educated population were the research tools for the data collection. On the basis of
the collected data the analysis and interpretation was done descriptively and
comparatively with the help of tables, diagrams and illustration. From the analysis it
was found that Tamang language has four types of sentences on the basis of formal
and functional properties and three types of sentences on the basis of constructional
properties as in English.
This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is introductory in nature. It
introduces sentence types in Tamang and English languages in general. It also
includes statement of the problem, rationale of the study, objectives of the study,
research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and
operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of
related literature along with implications of reviews of the study,theoretical and
conceptual framework.Similarly, the third chapter deals with the methods and
procedures of the study, design of the study, population and sample, sampling
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procedures, data collection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis and
interpretation procedures. After that, the fourth chapter deals with results and
discussions/interpretation and the last chapter deals with summary, conclusions,
implications followed by references and appendices.