DESCRIPTION OF AN URDU GRAMMATICAL WORD: AN ENGLISH-URDU BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Describing a grammatical word from lexicographic perspective has been an interest of the grammarians since many decades. Lakoff (1987) is one of the significant names in this regard who highlights the importance of these grammatical items in a lexicon and asserted that there is virtually a common workmanship behind most of the grammatical constructions. The need for describing these grammatical words in contrast with the content words is the high frequency that these grammatical words carry with them. No language learning scheme can be considered comprehensive without giving serious implications to these grammatical items. As lexicon is considered a great influential language tool, the impact of these grammatical items becomes more crucial.  The undertaken research is an attempt in this regard to systematically describe Urdu grammatical items to be presented in English-Urdu bilingual lexicon and highlight the prospect of producing more comparable lexicography in two different languages.