LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:4 April 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Aspects in Manipuri and Kannada: A Contrastive Analysis

Dr. Manjulakshi L., Ph.D. (Linguistics)
Dr. Soibam Rebika Devi, Ph.D. (Linguistics)

Introduction

Aspects are considered as the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of the main verb. The aspect may be broadly classified into two types, namely, progressive and perfect aspects. This paper tries to bring out the differences and similarities between the aspectual systems of Manipuri and Kannada.

Manipuri belongs to the Kuki-Chin group of the Tibeto-Burman sub-family of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. Manipuri, otherwise called Meiteilon, is the mother tongue of the major ethnic groups, i.e., the Meitei, Meitei Pangals (Meitei Muslims) and the Bamons (Meitei Brahmins), mostly residing in the valley region of the state of Manipur, one of the seven states of north-east India. It is the main common medium of communication among 33 different mother tongues of different tribes in Manipur and also among other people inhabiting in Manipur. It is being used as the lingua-franca in the state of Manipur and is the state official language of Manipur.

Kannada belongs to the southern group of the Dravidian family which is one of the four language families of India (Andronov, 1969). It is the mother tongue of Kannada people residing in the southern states of India, mostly in Karnataka and is the state official language of Karnataka. No contrastive study has been done on the aspectual systems of Manipuri and Kannada.

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Dr. Manjulakshi L., Ph.D. (Linguistics), M.A. (Linguistics)
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National Translation Mission
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Mysore 570 006
Karnataka
India
manjulakshi_lakkaiah@gmail.com
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Dr. Soibam Rebika Devi, Ph.D. (Linguistics), M.Sc. (Life Sciences), M.A. (Linguistics), M.A. (Translation Studies), Diploma in Tamil
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