LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 7 : 12 December 2007
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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CASE MARKING IN GOJRI

Nadeem Haider Bukhari
Mohana Dass Ramasamy &
Miri Hussein

Abstract

A fairly extensive and substantial research has been conducted over the years on the case system of the South Asian languages. However, Gojri could not get a proper place in the series of enquiry. This paper aims at describing the case system in Gojri spoken in the state of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (Pakistani held part). There have been some very interesting facts which are needed to be investigated to view this language either similar or different from other regional languages of the state including Urdu, Pahari, Hindko, Kashmiri etc. This paper is just a glimpse and invites other readers to investigate and contribute their research for the future enquiries.

1. Introduction

Kachru (1980) referred the nominative case as direct case as it is phonologically null. Its stem form is never inflected and can be used at different position in the sentence structure. Its use at different positions is simply because of the fact that Gojri, like many other languages of the region, is flexible in the word order. T. Mohanan (1990) has introduced three distinct morphological realisations for the description of case system of Hindi/Urdu: case clitics, post positions and inflected stem forms. This description can also be applied to Gojri with morphological variations in the construction of the words.

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Meithei Personal Names | The Status and Teaching of English in Pakistan | ELT in Higher Education in Iran and India - A Critical Review | Demands for a Separate Linguistic State - The Question of Identity and Territorializing Bundelkhand in India | Case Marking in Gojri | Religion and Fiction | Writing Across the Curriculum -
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Nadeem Haider Bukhari
Ph.D. Student
School of English Language, Languages and Linguistics
Newcastle University
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Mohana Dass Ramasamy
Ph.D. Student
School of English Language, Languages and Linguistics
Newcastle University
rmohana_dass@um.edu.my

Miri Hussein
Ph.D. Student
School of English Language, Languages and Linguistics
Newcastle University
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