Subordination: A Perspective of Manipuri Embedded Clause Structures
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Sagolsem Indrakumar Singh
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Chungkham Yashawanta Singh
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- Keywords:
- Manipuri Language, Tibeto-Burman Languages, Embedded Clauses, Syntax and Grammar, Nominalization, Linguistic Analysis
- Abstract
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Manipuri, being one of the Tibeto-Burman languages has a very unique
place among the languages of the world. It has its own literatures and grammars and
also is the richest preserver of the heritage of old literature than any other languages
in Manipur, a north-eastern state of India. The present paper studies the syntactic
structures regarding the various forms of embedded clauses prevailing in Manipuri.
The analysis exhibits the facts that all the embedded clauses in Manipuri are
constructed through the addition of nominalizer, quotative and nominalizer along
with case markers. This paper also discusses structural and functional classification
of embedded clauses in Manipuri. Structurally, embedded clauses are composed of by
adding nominalizers, quotatives and nominalizers along with case markers.
Functionally embedded clauses in a matrix sentence perform the function of nouns,
adjectives and adverbs. - Downloads
- Published
- 2014-04-10
- Issue
- Vol. 3 No. 2 (2014)
- Section
- Articles