A Comparative Study of English Language and the Astori Dialect of Shina Language
ABSTRACT
The fundamental principle of this project is to examine or analyze the similarity in the process of affixation (prefixation and suffixation) between the English language and the Astori dialect of the Shina language. Mainly the native vocabulary of the Astori dialect is adopted for this research. All the borrowed and loan words are being neglected because of this we can get awareness about the flexibility of the respective dialect. This similarity looks for the ‘formation of new words’ due to affixation, ‘modification in meaning’ because of affixation, and eventually ‘variation in the class of words’ as a result of affixation. So, all the needed data is arranged from the related texts, articles, books, websites, and native population and actual speakers of this dialect. Thus, the results of this research proved that because of prefixes and suffixes (either in the English language or in the Astori dialect of the Shina language), new words can be formed, the class of words can be changed and meaning also changes in each case. At last, this research has nominated that the flexibility of affixation of the Astori dialect is similar to that of the English language under the case study of the conversion of the ‘noun to noun’, ‘verb to the noun’, noun to the adjective’ and ‘adjective to the noun’ with the help of affixation. Hence, in the future, further studies can be conducted on the remaining parts of speech on the basis of affixation to evaluate the similarity between both of them.