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Comparative Analysis of New Lexical Items in the Poetry of Sufi Tabassum and
Lewis Carroll

Tahira Khanam, Ph.D. Candidate, Tayyaba Malik, Ph.D. Candidate,
Sarwar Khan, Ph.D. Candidate & Waqasia Naeem, Ph.D. Candidate

Abstract

This paper attempts to explore the new lexical items used by Sufi Tabassum and Lewis Carroll in their poetry. It also focuses on the different word formation processes used by them and their relation with Yule’s classification. For this the hypotheses adopted were whether or not new lexical items invented or coined by Sufi Tabassum in his book Tot Batoot Collection involved same word formation processes as in Lewis Carroll’s selected poem ‘Jabberwocky’ and whether or not the word formation processes involved in Sufi Tabassum’s new lexical items in his selected poems are as productive as of Lewis Carroll’s in his selected poem ‘Jabberwocky’. For this purpose their poems were analyzed.

The analysis revealed that the new lexical items invented or coined by Sufi Tabassam in his book Tot Batoot Collection had, to a large extent, the same word formation processes as in Lewis Carroll’s poem ‘Jabberwocky’ but Sufi Tabassum’s lexical items are not as productive as those found in Lewis Carroll’s poem.

Introduction

One of the most striking properties of a language is that it has two sides: namely, dynamic and statistic. Human language is unique in the sense that from a finite set of words, it can generate infinite number of sentences. In other words, it has limited or fixed lexicon and unlimited or generative syntax. So, lexicon or vocabulary represents its static side and syntax represents its dynamic side. A close observation of this static aspect of language shows that even new words or lexemes can be created out of existing list of lexicon through word formation processes which are the processes of creation of new lexical units through inflection, affixational derivation (prefixes, suffixes), non-affixational derivation like through motivated words, compounding, conversion, clipping, back formation, acronomy, borrowing, coinage etc. (Sugioka, 2000)

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Tahira Khanam, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of English (SS&H)
University of Management & Technology Lahore (UMT)
C-II, Johar Town, P.O. Box 54770
Lahore
Punjab, Pakistan
tahirakhanam@hotmail.com

Tayyaba Malik, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of English (SS&H)
University of Management & Technology Lahore (UMT)
C-II, Johar Town, P.O. Box 54770
Lahore
Punjab, Pakistan
capt_tanveeraslam@yahoo.com

Sarwar Khan, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of English (SS&H)
University of Management & Technology Lahore (UMT)
C-II, Johar Town, P.O. Box 54770
Lahore
Punjab, Pakistan
sarwarkhanbh@yahoo.com

Waqasia Naeem, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of English (SS&H)
University of Management & Technology Lahore (UMT)
C-II, Johar Town, P.O. Box 54770
Lahore
Punjab, Pakistan
n.waqsia@yahoo.com

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