Abstract
Pakistani English is a variety of English language concerning Sentence structure, Morphology, Phonology, Spelling, and Vocabulary. The one semantic element, which makes the investigation of Pakistani English additionally fascinating is the Vocabulary. Pakistani English uses many loan words from Urdu language and other local dialects, which have become an integral part of Pakistani English, and the speakers don't feel odd while using these words. Numerous studies are conducted on Pakistani English Vocabulary, yet a couple manage to deal with morphology. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the morphological integration of Urdu loan words in Pakistani English. Another purpose of the study is to investigate the main reasons of this morphological integration process. The Qualitative research method is used in this study. Researcher prepares a sample list of 50 loan words for the analysis. These words are randomly chosen from the newspaper “The Dawn” since it is the most dispersed English language newspaper in Pakistan. Some words are selected from the Books and Novellas of Pakistani English fiction authors, and concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edition. The results show that, when the Urdu language loan words are morphologically integrated in Pakistan English, they do not change their grammatical category. Moreover, four distinguished morphological process are identified in integration of these loan words. The results also reveal that deficit hypothesis is the main reason of this lexical borrowin.
Highlights
The English language is known as an international language, since this language has attained a position, where it is highlighting many social jobs, which are perceived and recognized by each nation
These results have established this fact that loan words are an integral part of Pakistani English, which makes Pakistani English a unique variety of English language
The results reveal that Pakistani English is catering the needs of its speakers and helping them to perform better in the daily communication
Summary
The English language is known as an international language, since this language has attained a position, where it is highlighting many social jobs, which are perceived and recognized by each nation. English language is the language of the whole globe on account of its unnecessary use in communication This language stretched its wings in different countries of the world, during the time of postcolonial, and human race witnessed the powerful gravity of the English language. (Bilal, Warraich, Fatima, Tiwana & Bhatti, 2012) This scenario has made the English language a shared property of the entire world. As, this language is incorporating with different dialects and languages, and the locals began to blend or include their own local language's words in the English language, since than diverse local varieties of the English language are coming into existence. Eighteen million individuals of the overall population of Pakistan are communicating in English, and the figures are rising each day, which makes Pakistan the third biggest English speaking Asian country. (Raza, 2008)
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