LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:12 December 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Quotative Clause Structures in Manipuri

S. Indrakumar Singh, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

This study is a descriptive account of the quotative clause structure in Manipuri. It attempts to describe the syntax and semantics of the quotatives in Manipuri revealing its derivations through the addition of suffixes. The quotative determines the exact clausal relationship between the embedded clause subordinated by the quotative and the main clause. Only one quotative complementizer is possible to occur per sentence, except with the verbs of saying and reporting, where each complementizer indicates that the speaker is one additional step removed form the actual reporting of some event. Then this work examines the verbal forms which can undergo with quotatives.

Introduction

A sentence containing a verb of utterance (saying) or cognition (thinking), which dominates a preceding embedded clause that specifies what is talked or thought about is the quotative clause (Matisoff 1973). On the other hand, an important type of complex sentence consists of a matrix sentence containing a verb of utterance (saying) or cognition (thinking), which dominates a preceding embedded clause that specifies that is talked or thought about. This later may be called a ‘quotative clause’.

Quotatives in Manipuri are derived from the verb root hai ‘say’ through the addition of suffixes.

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S. Indrakumar Singh, M.A., LL.B., Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Imphal
Manipur-795003
India
iksagol@gmail.com
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