A Comparative Study of Morphological English and Pāli Language

Abstract

             This study aims to compare compared the similarities and differences between English and Pāli morphemes, words formation and word classes which based on English and Pāli prefix, suffix, infix, circumflexes and word formation.  The study is a qualitative research, using an in-depth interview to collect data from English and Pāli morphological scholars. A content analysis is used for analyzing the data. The findings of the study are found that both Pāli and English languages consist of prefixes. In attaching systems both are the same because both of the prefix types possess negative prefixes. But negative Pali prefixes are less than English negative prefixes. The most differences between these two prefix types are oppositeness-signaling and adverseness-signaling. Both of the morphologies also include positive prefixation but in Pāli morphology possesses more prefixations than English morphology. Both types of the prefixation process are the same in modification. In Pāli morphology, positive prefixes can change original root word of meanings but in English, positive prefixes do not change any meaning but only modify. Pāli and English also consist of comparative suffixes. In Pāli morphology, there are five suffixes mostly used in adjectives. In English also clearly exists comparative suffixes which are only used in adjective forms. Pāli morphology has particular suffixes for pronominal forms but in English, there is no particular suffixes for pronominal forms. Pāli and English morphology involve adverbial suffixes and both are same in the process. Pāli and English ordinal suffixes are mostly same because in English, all ordinal numbers also carry a suffix individually. The infix between English and Pāli morphological notions possess very different usages. In Pāli morphology consist of very widely apparent infixes. In Pāli morphology, infixes exit apparently. In English morphology, there is no apparent infix but English are expletive infixes.  Both English and Pāli have circumfixation very widely and both are mostly same in morphological construction.