A Semantic Analysis of English and Bhojpuri Verbs

Abstract

The thesis entitled A Semantic Analysis of English and Bhojpuri Verbs is an attempt to describe and to have an analysis of semantic system of verbs in the English and Bhojpuri language. The thesis presents a very careful and controlled analysis and description of the semantic system of the selected verbs of the English language then the same are compared with the Bhojpuri verbs. The data for the Bhojpuri verbs were collected through unstructured interviews with eighty educated native speakers of the Bhojpuri language and the researcher also utilized his intuition. Data for the English verbs were colleted from various dictionaries and thesaurus as secondary sources. The researcher has found that the Bhojpuri and English verbs do not have semantic overlapping in most of the cases. The English and Bhjojpuri verbs have semantic equivalence or one to one correlation in most of the cases and divergence and convergence and finally semantic inclusion. The thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction. It consists of general background, importance of the English language, introduction to the Bhojpuri language, introduction to verb, basic concept of semantics, componential analysis and contrastive analysis, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definition of specific terms. The second chapter deals with methodology in which the sources of data, tools and procedures of data collection and limitations of the study are included. Similarly, the third chapter comprises of analysis and interpretation of the data obtained. Finally, the fourth chapter encompasses findings and recommendations