The effects of Urdu Punjabi and English on Mewati lexical items in Pakistan
| dc.contributor.author | Kamran Arshad, Muhammad | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-13T10:53:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-03-13T10:53:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description | Supervised by:Dr. Arshad Khan | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of Urdu, Punjabi and English on Mewati lexical items in Pakistan. Mewati speech community migrated from the current state of Delhi, Haryana and Alwar, India and settled across various parts of Pakistan in 1947. After the migration, Mewati speech community eventually met various dialects and languages spoken across Pakistan. It seems as Mewati has been depleting ever since. There are striking differences in the speed of change across the various linguistic levels, such as phonology, lexis, syntax and semantics. The present study investigates intergenerational lexical shift in the Mewati language. Labov (1963, 1966) argues that language change can be observed through different age groups. Thus, the Apparent Time Hypothesis was considered for studying intergenerational lexical shift in the Mewati language. The data was collected from 60 participants belonging to three different age groups. The three age groups were composed of participants whose ages were between 10-25 years, 35-50 years, and 70-90 years, respectively. All the participants were residents of the province Punjab, which is in a way representative of the target population. A list of items of daily use along with their images was administered to elicit their responses. The study shows that there is more likely a significant lexical shift between (10-25) years old Mewati speakers. The second age group (35-50 years) was quite successful to retain some words. However, those who were between 70-90 years seem true representatives of the Mewati language because their responses were correct in all instances presented to them. There is reason to believe that the Mewati language would suffer badly after the death of last person in this age group. Nevertheless, with these findings we can safely speculate that the Mewati language is endangered. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2861 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Management and Technology Lahore | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mewati lexical | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mewati language | en_US |
| dc.subject | M.Phil Thesis | en_US |
| dc.title | The effects of Urdu Punjabi and English on Mewati lexical items in Pakistan | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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