LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:12 December 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Morphosyntactic Analysis of Noun Phrase in Manipuri

Dhanapati Shougrakpam, Ph.D.

Abstract

Morphosyntactic is a term in linguistics used to refer to grammatical categories or properties for whose definition the criteria of morphology and syntax both apply, as in describing the characteristics of words. Crystal (1980:234)

Manipuri is a morphologically rich agglutinative language, in which words are inflected with various grammatical functions. The language has no watertight compartment between morphology and syntax: the concept of subject is not so distinct (in other words, subject can be deleted or understood) and different word classes are formed by affixation of the respective markers.

Key words:Manipuri language, morphosyntactic analysis, agglutivative, subject, affixation

Introduction

Noun phrase (NP) is a prototypical part of every sentence and a vital topic in any natural language processing task. The description of NP is implicitly based on the idea that constituents are built up of a continuous sequence of words.

A formal representation of noun phrase based on speaker’s syntactic knowledge includes:

A. Morpheme identification.
B. Aspects of syntactic analysis are explicitly represented:
i. Hierarchical structure of the syntactic category in a tree diagram.
ii. The syntactic structure into sequences of syntactic categories or classes established on the basis of syntactic relationships linguistic items have with other items in a construction.

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Dhanapati Shougrakpam, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Canchipur
Imphal – 795 003
Manipur
India
dippi1117@yahoo.co.in
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