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Volume 13 : 7 July 2013
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Further Insights into Subject-Verb Agreement in
the Syntax of Sindhi and English Languages
A Critical and Comparative Analysis

Mubarak Ali Lashari
Nirmal
Illahi Bux Gopang

Abstract

The central objective of this paper is to examine one of the important grammatical aspects of Sindhi and English language i.e. Subject-verb agreement but before moving to this central objective a brief historical background of both English and is given. Moreover some of the syntactic properties of both languages, including the positions of head word in the phrase and the position of verb and object, have been discussed. In addition to this Subject-verb agreement rule has been defined which is followed by the actual area of analysis. The analysis has been done by explaining various conditions in which the verb, due to the change in subject, changes similarly in both languages and some conditions where subject-verb treatment is different in both languages.

Introduction

According to Chomsky’s idea of Universal Grammar, as discussed by Rosamond Mitchell and Florence Miles in their book Second Language Learning Theories, some basic linguistic features or principles are universal that is to say they are shared by all natural languages of the world for example all languages are structure-dependent which means all human languages have a definite structure which determines the way in which lexical items are arranged and disturbing that arrangement would result in illogical or meaningless utterances. On the other hand there are some features which are different among all the languages for example the structure or the arrangement of linguistic items discussed above is different across languages. For instance the arrangement of subject, verb and object is not same in all the languages as some languages take verb before object and some after object. (Mitchell & Myles, 2004, p.62). Another such feature varying among languages is how changes occur in verb according to the its subject. This paper aims to examine and compare, on a preliminary level, the rules of subject-verb agreement in English and Sindhi. But before that a brief account of the origin of both languages is necessary which is given as under.

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Mubarak Lashari, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of English Language
International Islamic University
Islamabad
Pakistan
Teaching at Institute of English Language and Literature, University of Sindh, Jamshoro.
mubaraklashari78@gmail.com

Nirmal, B.S. Hons. Student
Institute of English Language and Literature
University of Sindh
Jomshoro
Pakistan
awsome_alvi@hotmail.com

Illahi Bux Gopang, M.Phil. Leading to PhD.. Scholar
Institute of English Language and Literature
University of Sindh
Jomshoro
Pakistan

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