Sentence types in english and tamang

Abstract

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 vii 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.