A SURVEY STUDY OF THE COMBINATIONS OF URDU LIGHT VERBS THAT IT IS SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE IN PAKISTAN

Urdu enjoys the status of being one of the largest and prestigious languages of the world despite being ignored by those who own it. This paper intends to highlight the significance of the light verbs found in Urdu and after getting public opinion through survey, asserts that these light verbs can be overgeneralized provided the educated class changes its prescriptivist attitude. A questionnaire comprising 25 items was used. Each item was a sentence in Urdu. Among all the 25 sentences 12 were the ones commonly used in everyday speech and the other 13 each carried a lexical variation of a light verb. The respondents were given a choice to tick the choice before each item that suited them. After careful inquiries, 25 respondents belonging to native Urdu speakers and the remaining 25 belonging to native Punjabi speakers but having studied Urdu as a second language were selected as sample out of a population of 110 respondents (fifty respondents in total). The data was collected from different Urdu Speakers. The data was analyzed by using SPSS. The percentage and cumulative frequency were count. It concludes that by relying on the broad-minded attitude of both the native and the non-native Urdu speakers can move towards bigger desired changes at lexical level in the structures of daily use. Deep linguistic analysis of the light verbs changes that were rejected by both groups should be carried out in order to know which linguistic aspects of those lexical items kept both groups from accepting them.