Papers by Abdul Majid Khan Rana
Khoj, 2020
The current study aims at describing conditional sentences in
Punjabi language. There is abundant... more The current study aims at describing conditional sentences in
Punjabi language. There is abundant research on the formation
and description of Conditional sentences in world’s languages
but there is study available to describe the phenomenon in
Punjabi language. Punjabi language is spoken mostly in
Pakistan and India and some other parts of the countries as
well. In India, it is written in Gurmukhi script but in Pakistan
Shahmukhi script that is a variant of perso-arabic script is used.
In Indian perspective there are researches available about
different linguistic aspects of this language but in Pakistan
there is the dearth of research about its linguistic analysis. The
study was started to answer the questions that how the
conditionals are showing epistemic, deontic and commissive
meanings and what level of hypotheticality is used in Punjabi
conditionals. Though there are different terminologies used for
the two parts of a conditional sentence but as the study oriented
towards grammatical aspect so the researcher used the
terminologies of protasis (if-clause) and apodosis (then-clause).
The study concluded that a high degree of hypothecality can be
shown in epistemic modals but for the deontic the problem is
low degree of counterfactuality.Commissive conditionals show
the commitment of speaker but that is only in realis mode of
speech and irrelis meaning cannot be shown through
commissive modality. Overall, we can say that Punjabi
language is very rich in its morpho-syntax and that aspect
needs to be researched upon; for which the higher education
commission should allocate sufficient funding so that not only
Punjabi language but also other indigenous languages could be
explored for their rich linguistics.
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Papers by Abdul Majid Khan Rana
Punjabi language. There is abundant research on the formation
and description of Conditional sentences in world’s languages
but there is study available to describe the phenomenon in
Punjabi language. Punjabi language is spoken mostly in
Pakistan and India and some other parts of the countries as
well. In India, it is written in Gurmukhi script but in Pakistan
Shahmukhi script that is a variant of perso-arabic script is used.
In Indian perspective there are researches available about
different linguistic aspects of this language but in Pakistan
there is the dearth of research about its linguistic analysis. The
study was started to answer the questions that how the
conditionals are showing epistemic, deontic and commissive
meanings and what level of hypotheticality is used in Punjabi
conditionals. Though there are different terminologies used for
the two parts of a conditional sentence but as the study oriented
towards grammatical aspect so the researcher used the
terminologies of protasis (if-clause) and apodosis (then-clause).
The study concluded that a high degree of hypothecality can be
shown in epistemic modals but for the deontic the problem is
low degree of counterfactuality.Commissive conditionals show
the commitment of speaker but that is only in realis mode of
speech and irrelis meaning cannot be shown through
commissive modality. Overall, we can say that Punjabi
language is very rich in its morpho-syntax and that aspect
needs to be researched upon; for which the higher education
commission should allocate sufficient funding so that not only
Punjabi language but also other indigenous languages could be
explored for their rich linguistics.
Punjabi language. There is abundant research on the formation
and description of Conditional sentences in world’s languages
but there is study available to describe the phenomenon in
Punjabi language. Punjabi language is spoken mostly in
Pakistan and India and some other parts of the countries as
well. In India, it is written in Gurmukhi script but in Pakistan
Shahmukhi script that is a variant of perso-arabic script is used.
In Indian perspective there are researches available about
different linguistic aspects of this language but in Pakistan
there is the dearth of research about its linguistic analysis. The
study was started to answer the questions that how the
conditionals are showing epistemic, deontic and commissive
meanings and what level of hypotheticality is used in Punjabi
conditionals. Though there are different terminologies used for
the two parts of a conditional sentence but as the study oriented
towards grammatical aspect so the researcher used the
terminologies of protasis (if-clause) and apodosis (then-clause).
The study concluded that a high degree of hypothecality can be
shown in epistemic modals but for the deontic the problem is
low degree of counterfactuality.Commissive conditionals show
the commitment of speaker but that is only in realis mode of
speech and irrelis meaning cannot be shown through
commissive modality. Overall, we can say that Punjabi
language is very rich in its morpho-syntax and that aspect
needs to be researched upon; for which the higher education
commission should allocate sufficient funding so that not only
Punjabi language but also other indigenous languages could be
explored for their rich linguistics.