Morphological Deviations in Pakistani English and British English in the Formation of Comparative Adjectives and Subject-Verb Agreement: A Corpus Based Study

Muhammad Nasir, Mahvish Jamil and Itrat Shahzad Khan
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Muhammad Nasir: Lecturer, Department of English, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan, Pakistan
Mahvish Jamil: Lecturer, Riphah International College Khanewal, Pakistan
Itrat Shahzad Khan: Govt. School Teacher at Dokota, Mailsi, Pakistan

Journal of Policy Research (JPR), 2023, vol. 9, issue 2, 474-482

Abstract: The present research study intends to find out the Inflectional Morphological Deviations that exist in Pakistani English and British English. Pakistani English is now being considered an individual language variety. It is found to be deviant at almost all linguistic levels from the other varieties of English like British English. This research study tries to find out the Inflectional Morphological deviations in the formation or use of Comparative Adjectives, and in the Subject-verb Agreement (subject being a collective noun) in Pakistani English and British English. It is a Corpus based comparative research study. Corpus is compiled from British English Fiction (consisting of more than million words) and from Pakistani English Fiction (more than one million words). The software employed to conduct the research study is AntConc 5.3.9. Research tools that were used for data collection and analysis include Wordlist, Concordance Tool and Cluster tool. This study provides help to English Language students especially to those who are interested in linguistic variation of Englishes.

Keywords: Inflectional Morphology; Collective noun; Comparative Adjectives Morphological Deviations; Pakistani English Fiction; British English Fiction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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