TAMIL LYRICISTS' USE OF GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE: A NON - PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL APPROACH USING THE FRIEDMAN MODEL
Abstract
Indian music has been inspired by lyrics from the silent period. The Tamil Language has been the medium for many plays and stories in the last 120 years. The lyrics and music express the emotional message of humans, society, and political issues. The primary aim of the lyricist focused on understanding the social structure of people in the region. Tamil lyricists have undergone changes in the last 120years. In this article, we focus on the salient features of the grammatical structure of the works of Tamil lyricists. This includes Peyarccoṟkaḷ, the Piratipeyar, Vinaiyuriccolial, Vinaiccol, and Vinaiyuriccol. Studies on the grammatical structures have been made by Tamil scholars with specialization in linguistic aspects relating to the Vinaiyuriccolial formation, parsing in Tamil language, lexical metaphors, compound Vinaiccol construction, etc. Usage of statistical methods for the study of languages is limited among researchers. There are a few studies using quantitative models. Keeping in view of this aspect the authors have used the Friedman Two-way Analysis of variance model for identifying the usage of the grammatical structure by the lyricist. The results of the study indicated that there exist significant differences in the usage of the grammatical structure by the lyricist.
Keyword : Analysis of Variance, Friedman Model, Grammatical Structure, Lyricist,Poems, Rank,Tamil Lyrics.
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