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Variation in Academic Writing: A Corpus-Based Research on Syntactic Features across Four Disciplinary Divisions
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Muhammad Ahmad; Muhammad Asim Mahmood; Ali Raza Siddique – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2023
This research investigates disciplinary variations using syntactic features in Pakistani academic writing (AW). The corpus of this research is developed from 160 dissertations across four disciplinary divisions and analyzed through AntConc. Results reveal heterogeneous and homogenous use of the said features. Heterogeneity is seen in relation to…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure
A Study of Code-Mixing and Code-Switching (Urdu and Punjabi) in Children's Early Speech
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Ramzan, Muhammad; Aziz, Aamir; Ghaffar, Maimoona – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This research is analytical in nature and a comparative study of code-mixing and code-switching among the children of 2 to 5 belonging to the educated and uneducated background. The focus of the research is how the children mix and switch Punjabi and Urdu at their early age. This study of code-mixing and code-switching in Urdu and Punjabi is found…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Urdu, Indo European Languages, Preschool Children
The Disacquisition of Subjecthood in Shina (Skardu).
Hook, Peter Edwin – 1987
An unusual construction in Shina grammar is examined, particularly as it has been observed in the language form spoken in the Skardu region of Pakistan. The construction occurs in the use of the dative case with certain verbs. The patterns of occurrence and the origins of this phenomenon are analyzed through examples from Shina. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns