A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi

This research paper intends to do a Corpus analysis of the use of linguistics features as nouns, adjectives, articles and pronouns by Ahmed Ali in his masterwork Twilight in Delhi. The linguistics features like articles, nouns, adjectives, conjunctions have been analyzed with the help of Corpus tool by applying AntConc software 3.5.8 (window) 2019 that is the objective of this paper. The corpus toolkit helps to find accurate quantitative data and explains well even the lengthier texts. This paper presents the detailed inside of the novel through concordance tool and Collocations. Ahmed Ali portrays the colonized people and how the British colonial rule deteriorates the Muslim people of subcontinent. He depicts the clear picture of the natives fall through the use of nouns and other linguistic tools. He shows that how language becomes hybrid at colonial encounter. Moreover, the study examines Concordance tool and collocations that are helpful to gain information about linguistic features. Qualitative and quantitative methods are applied to gain the better results of the analysis. The present study will help to read the text more efficiently. After the study of this paper, the future researchers and students will be able to do Corpus study of any piece of fiction and also help them to understand the theme of twilight and decay of the Muslim culture, history and religion in this novel that is portrayed skillfully with the help of linguistics features. It is only possible through corpus analysis of Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali.