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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>I am PhD research scholar Working on</FONT> </SPAN><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Semantic Field Theories</SPAN></U><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> <FONT size=3>by applying them to</FONT> </SPAN></U><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Kannada</SPAN></U><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>(The State official Language of Karnataka State, India)</FONT> </SPAN><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Lexicon</SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">.</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">I am specifically concentrating on <U>Semantic fields of verbs</U> (E.g. verbs of Oral Consumption, verbs of Cleaning, verbs of oral manipulations, etc.) and one of the hypotheses of my research is that detailed study of</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Paradigmatic </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">and</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Syntagmatic </SPAN><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Lexical Relations/Sense-relations</SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> of verbs (which are around 3K to 5K in a given language) will help to hierarchically structure out the lexicon of 200K to 400K</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">of a given language.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">For structuring a given Semantic Field (E.g. domain of cooking verbs) on the basis of paradigmatic lexical relations please see Lehrer, A.J. 1974. <STRONG><I>Semantic Fields and Lexical Structure</I></STRONG>. New York, USA. American Elsevier. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Further I am claiming that <U>the study of </U></SPAN><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Syntagmatic Lexical Relations</SPAN></U><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> of a verbs will show or through light on individuating the </SPAN></U><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Semantic Fields</SPAN></U><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> in other groups of parts speech. </SPAN></U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">That means to say sets and subsets in rest of the lexicon (out of 200K to 400K) can be satisfactorily resolved by the total study of the verbs and their Syntagmatic behavior with other ' Lexical Units ' in a language and ultimately one can arrive at the </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Hierarchical Structure</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> of the vocabulary of a given language. This is as a salvation to the issue of <STRONG>individuating the Semantic Fields.</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Hierarchical Structure</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> of </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">LEXICON </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">is very much necessary for syntactic studies and for lexical based syntactic theories. Verbs and their Syntagmatic behavior with other 'Lexical Units' in a language will project much of the Syntactic generalization.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">If any of you can comment on my hypothesis and give your opinions on my hypothesis and its relevance in Linguistics field it will be of greater help to me.<STRONG> </STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">If any of you can show me the studies, which are having the same kind of hypothesis, or related to of mine I am thankful to you for it.</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3>However I am interested in all of your personal opinions.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">(I am sorry for my earlier posting, which was received blank by all of you due to low speed of Internet.)</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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