부산대학교 도서관

The present study aims to explore the use of verb particles in three registers of the English variety used in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Kashmiri English). The variant use of different grammatical elements helps determine the features of a local variety of English. Verb particles are the grammatical elements which have been the focus of researchers lately (Thim, 2012; Zipp & Bernaisch, 2012; Haiden, 2017). The present study explores the use of verb particles in three registers of Kashmir English namely academic writing, news, and academic spoken discourse. For this purpose, a corpus was compiled from these three registers of Kashmiri English. The data for the newspaper corpus was collected from the Daily Height that is published in Muzaffarabad. The data for academic writing corpus was collected from M. Phil and PhD theses available at the department of English, the university of Azad Jammu & Kashmir. The data for the spoken discourse was collected in the form of audio recordings of ESL class lectures and students' presentations. These recordings transcribed in text format and an overall corpus of the three registers was compiled for the analysis. The corpora were analyzed through AntConc software to examine the use of verb particles in Kashmiri English. The findings show that the verbs particles are frequently used in all three registers of Kashmiri English. However, Kashmiri English prefer using bare words in place of verb particles where the use of bare verbs do not cause any semantic change in the discourse. The study also shows that use of verb particles is more common in written discourse than in spoken discourse of Kashmir English. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]