Pashto-English Contact: The Role of Suffixation in Hybridizing Lexical Items
The study investigates the role of suffixation in Pashto-English hybridization at the word level and the sociolinguistic significance of such hybridization. Data from electronic media, including programmes from Khyber News, representing both formal and informal domains of language use, is used for the study. The programmes selected include Top Stories, News Hour, Mohim Repotuna, Naway Sahar and Sports Mag. Employing content analysis as a research method, a quantitative approach for the investigation of hybridized English lexical category and a qualitative approach for its sociolinguistic significance have been used. The present study employs the framework presented by Kachru (1978), as adapted by Rasul (2006). The findings of the research show that noun is frequently hybridized both in formal and informal domains of language used mostly by the addition of Pashto inflectional suffixes. It is concluded that suffixation got an important role in Pashto-English hybridization that leads to the creation of hybrid forms predicting language shift and the emergence of a new variety of Pashto.
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Pashto, English, Suffixation, Lexical Items
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(1) Nisar Ahmad
Lecturer, Department of English, Government Postgraduate College, Nowshera, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Liaqat Iqbal
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Muhammad Atif
Lecturer, Department of English, Government Postgraduate College, Nowshera, KP, Pakistan.
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APA : Ahmad, N., Iqbal, L., & Atif, M. (2019). Pashto-English Contact: The Role of Suffixation in Hybridizing Lexical Items. Global Regional Review, IV(IV), 629-637. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).58
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CHICAGO : Ahmad, Nisar, Liaqat Iqbal, and Muhammad Atif. 2019. "Pashto-English Contact: The Role of Suffixation in Hybridizing Lexical Items." Global Regional Review, IV (IV): 629-637 doi: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).58
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HARVARD : AHMAD, N., IQBAL, L. & ATIF, M. 2019. Pashto-English Contact: The Role of Suffixation in Hybridizing Lexical Items. Global Regional Review, IV, 629-637.
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MHRA : Ahmad, Nisar, Liaqat Iqbal, and Muhammad Atif. 2019. "Pashto-English Contact: The Role of Suffixation in Hybridizing Lexical Items." Global Regional Review, IV: 629-637
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MLA : Ahmad, Nisar, Liaqat Iqbal, and Muhammad Atif. "Pashto-English Contact: The Role of Suffixation in Hybridizing Lexical Items." Global Regional Review, IV.IV (2019): 629-637 Print.
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OXFORD : Ahmad, Nisar, Iqbal, Liaqat, and Atif, Muhammad (2019), "Pashto-English Contact: The Role of Suffixation in Hybridizing Lexical Items", Global Regional Review, IV (IV), 629-637
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TURABIAN : Ahmad, Nisar, Liaqat Iqbal, and Muhammad Atif. "Pashto-English Contact: The Role of Suffixation in Hybridizing Lexical Items." Global Regional Review IV, no. IV (2019): 629-637. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-IV).58