LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:5 May 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Syntactico- Semantic Study of Particles in
Modern Malaysian Tamil

K. Karunakaran, Ph.D. and R. Krishnan, Ph.D.
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

Abstract

The present study investigates the structural and functional significance of particles in Modern Malaysian Tamil (MMT). It focuses on the syntactico-semantic explanation for the occurrence of particles in grammatical forms in syntax and discourse levels of MMT using the methods of syntax and semantics as well as discourse analysis. This study makes use of the data collected through field work undertaken by the investigators as well as those gathered from modern Tamil used in print, audio, visual media and those collected through observation methods. The analysis drawn is presented following the descriptive (structural) model with relevant illustrations and conditioning factors wherever necessary.

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Background of the study

There are traditional grammatical treatises as well as modern descriptive grammars in Tamil which present the grammatical descriptions of different structures (Tolkappiam, 1963). These descriptions though found to be moderately adequate and well formalized there are parts of speech such as particles and their structural and functional importance which have not been brought out in an explicit way in these descriptions. As modern Tamil is used in different types of discourse such as mass media, science and technology, administration, higher education, judiciary and so on, there is a need to modernize and enrich the textual presentation and different types of narrations, descriptions, reports and so on. This kind of presentation is needed in order to achieve better communication from the points of view of linguistic competence and performance. So, a study of this kind becomes linguistically relevant and socially significant.

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K. Karunakaran, Ph.D.
krishnamoorthykarunakaran32@gmail.com

R. Krishnan, Ph.D.
krishnan.ramasamy5@gmail.com

University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
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