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A Descriptive Study of Explicator and Reverse Compound Verbs in Magahi –
A Case of a Less-resourced Language

Shivek Kumar Sicky, Ph.D. Scholar and
Pitambar Behera, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

The phenomena of Reversed Compound Verbs (RCVs) and Explicator Compound Verbs (ECVs) have attracted a great deal of attention and focus recently by Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, as they are one of the salient features in almost all the South Asian languages. An ECV refers to the sort of constructions wherein the two different verbs i.e., v1 and v2 are sequentially arranged in order to form a meaningful expression. Here v1, which is the main verb of the sentence, is being followed by an auxiliary verb v2, which is later de-lexicalized.

On the other hand, an RCV is a type of compound verb formation in south Asian languages that was first noticed by Hook in 1974. An RCV is the reordered structuring of the same Compound Verb (CV), which is found in almost all south Asian languages as a special feature. The present paper is an attempt to examine the formation of both of these types of verbs and analyze their functions in Magahi. One could also find it interesting in investigating what happens to other linguistic properties of Magahi like syntactic, semantic and morphological properties when the structure is rearranged. It will also be interesting if both of these verb forms namely ECVs and RCVs show any sort of resemblance among them in Magahi once formed and how well they are accepted in the society. The present paper is also an attempt at making an aerial survey of Magahi language, which is one of the regional variations of Bihari languages and to figure out if there are any issues or challenges faced while reshuffling, reordering or restructuring CVs.

Keywords: Magahi, Bihar, South Asian Languages, Reverse Compound Verb, Explicator Compound Verb, Compound Verb.

1. Overview

This paper is an attempt at tracing the forms of the Reverse Compound Verbs and Explicator Compound Verbs in Magahi. It is an attempt to trace such verbs in a very less resourced vernacular of Bihar, which is not much popular among the masses. In this paper, it has been attempted to identify whether such expressions like RCVs and ECVs can be formed or found in Magahi (Kumar et al., 2017), unlike in Hindi and other vernaculars like Odia (Jha, et al., 2014; Behera, 2015; Ojha et al., 2015; Behera, 2017), Sambalpuri (Behera & Dash, 2017; Behera et al., 2021), Bengali and also other foreign languages like English, Arabic, Persian etc. The term ‘verb construction’ in languages is a well-known phenomenon with a well-established fact that such constructions help in the internal advancement of a language or a sentence of a vernacular in particular. There has been abundant availability of research in the past focusing on verb constructions in general.

It is due to this reason that one can not only find a lot more upon constructions of verbs or compound verbs in Hindi but also in all other standard forms of languages. However, it is almost difficult to find something concrete over the processes of verb constructions or anything similar to that in any regional vernaculars of India, including Magahi. It is this sole rationale which inspired us to bring something brainstorming that bears the core concept of verb constructions and something experimental to put forward some puzzling aspects of creating some new forms by reversing or re-ordering the structures of the verbs in Magahi, similar to that of Hindi.

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Shivek Kumar Sicky, Ph.D. Scholar
Centre for Linguistics, SLL & CS
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
loveshivek89@gmail.com

Pitambar Behera
Assistant Professor
Department of English, Govt. College
Sundargarh, Odisha
Ph.D. Scholar, Centre for Linguistics
SLL & CS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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