LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 8 August 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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The Construction “I Love You” Comparative Accounts in Tamil and English

S. Thennarasu, M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract This paper tries to visualize the cultural dynamics with reference to the construction “I Love You” in Tamil and English. It also tries to address the structural influence of linguistic domains, such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics in both languages. For this study, we make use of the available corpora - Enabling Minority Language Engineering (EMILLE) and Corpus of Contemporary American English (CCAE) for Tamil and English respectively. This paper addresses the issue how the constructions “katali-kki?-e?” (love-present tense-1p.sg. png marker) in Tamil and “love” in English are typically unique from one another. To concretize, the verb “katali-kki?-e?” cannot be used for anything other than the sense of “I Love you” in between the beloved ones in Tamil, whereas the verb “love” in English can be fit into different contexts to perceive different senses like “I love my mother” (parental), “I love my job” (appreciation) and “I love you” (loved one). Finally, the comparison of how this construction (or particularly the verb “love”) functions in other Indian languages and how a Machine Translation (MT) would translate this construction considering all the tense features from English to Indian Languages are highlighted.

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Thennarasu Sakkan, M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar
Lecturer in LDC-IL
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Manasagangothri
Hunsur Road
Mysore 570006
Karnataka
India
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