Fakharh Muhabat; Mehvish Noor & Mubashir Iqbal
Mubashir Iqbal
DR Mehwish Noor
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Abstract
Native speakers of English lost their control over it when it became an international language. Now non-native speakers are more in number than natives and they have their own distinctive variety of English. Many researches at sociolinguistic, phonetic, and syntactic etc level have been conducted to argue that PakE is also another variety. But still, there is lack of linguistic tolerance. This research contributes to prove PakE as another variety through divergence in hyphenation which is important aspect of punctuation. It is a qualitative research and descriptive method is used to analyze it. Data is collected from well-known Pakistani English newspapers Dawn, The nation, Daily Times and Pakistan Observer. Tool of the research is BNC (The British National Corpus) and only those hyphenated lexemes, in different functions, categories and combinations, are collected which exist without hyphenation in BNC. This research concludes that despite of having different entity at other levels, Pakistani English is unique in punctuation through hyphenation. It must be regarded another non-native variety of English.
Key takeaways
- Present study will analyze the function of hyphen and will bring into light those categories which are hyphenated in Pakistani journalist English but these hyphenated lexemes exist in BNC (The British National Corpus) without hyphenation.
- Data is collected from local Pakistani newspapers on verb, noun complementation, adjective and reality of native system of Pakistani English is brought into light.
- Here, hyphen has the function of compounding in the categories of noun and adjective.
- "Well-known" is adjective (used to describe Uzbek leader) and hyphen is used to connect" well" with "known" to show that it is one idea or one adjective.
- Uzbek leader (2014, April5, page4, OBS) In view of her deep commitment to book, education and school and the cause of much-needed peace(Z a h i d M a l i k , 2 0 1 3 , O C T 2 9 , O B S ) 4.6.7) Noun + Verb When noun comes with verb comes with noun then hyphen is used to function as a compound adjective.
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