The common element in Mamoni Raisom Goswami's literary work is the concern for women. This concer... more The common element in Mamoni Raisom Goswami's literary work is the concern for women. This concern of her gets reflected at many contexts of her works. She raises questions on several facets of women's empowerment in India. Foremost among them are attitude to girl children, marriage and widowhood. There are many more aspects to Goswami's feminism. In her autobiography, Adhalekha Dastavej (1998) she recalls how she accepted a suggestion to choose a life in Vrindavan. She spent two years amidst the Radhashyami widows in Vrindavan. She stayed there as a compassionate member as well as a researcher. Perhaps, writing about the pain of these women helped Goswami to come into terms with her own grief and frustration and keep a hold on her sanity.
An endangered language is a language that is at the verge of extinction for factors like its spea... more An endangered language is a language that is at the verge of extinction for factors like its speakers' shift to another language. Language endangerment is a major concern of contemporary world. History and culture of a particular society is passed down through its language. Due to this, when a language dies, it may take with it important information about the early history of the community. Language experts and linguists are working closely with communities of endangered languages around the world in an attempt to preserve these languages. They are trying to offer help with language documentation, maintenance, and revival so that even if the language dies due to some reason, the knowledge of the language will still survive. Tai-Phake is one such language of Assam with a speaker of around 2000 (17 th edition, Ethnologue, 2013). It is one of the six languages of Tai-kadai language family. Till date various researchers and linguists have worked on this language. However, it is still comparatively lesser studied and lesser documented language of Tai-kadai language family. In this paper an attempt will be made to give a detailed description of the Adjectives found in Tai-Phake. Adjectives are described as expressions that alter, clarify, or adjust the meaning contributions of nouns. They are used in the grammatical classification of words to refer to the main set of items, and they specify the attributes of nouns. This paper presents the semantic protypes of adjectives. This paper will also touch upon adjective reduplication process available in this language.
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