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Mahela, Ratul; Sinha, Sweta – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This paper is an attempt to present the morphological processes that have been observed in Sanzari Boro, an eastern variety of the Boro language. Boro belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The Standard variety of Boro is mainly spoken in the present Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) of Assam, India but Sanzari Boro speakers primarily…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Speakers, Morphemes
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De Cuypere, Ludovic; Verbeke, Saartje – World Englishes, 2013
The dative alternation refers to the alternation between two constructions that denote some type of transfer: the double object construction ("I give my sister a book") vs. the to-dative construction ("I give a book to my sister"). We examined the motivations behind the dative alternation in Indian English. A corpus study was…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Sentence Structure, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)