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Volume 13 : 1 January 2013
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Conjunctive Coordinator, ədugə ‘and’ in Manipuri

Ch. Yashawanta Singh, Ph.D.
S. Indrakumar Singh, Ph.D. Candidate

Abstract

The present paper is concerned with the Coordination in Manipuri from the point of view of syntactic constituents. Coordination refers to syntactic constructions in which two or more units (called conjuncts or coordinands) of the same type are combined into a larger unit and still have the same semantic relations with other surrounding elements. A coordinating construction is one in which all of the constituents are of the same syntactic category consisting of two or more coordinands or coordinated phrases or conjuncts. This paper analyses the coordinator ədugə ‘and’ in the structure of Verb coordinate construction, Adjective modifiers coordinate construction, Adverb modifiers coordinate construction and Postposition modifiers coordinate construction.

Monosyndetic coordination, being a subclass of Syndetic involves only a single Coordinator, i.e., when not more than two conjuncts or coordinands are present as stated by Martin Haspelmath (2004). In Manipuri, monosyndetic coordination occurs with lexical coordinators such as ədugə ‘and’. Also bisyndetic coordination being another subclass of Syndetic involves two coordinators i.e. when two or more conjuncts or coordinands are present. But the coordinator ədugə ‘and’ does not occur in bisyndetic coordination and also it does not occur in Noun Phrase coordinate construction. In addition to this, Manipuri allows multiple coordinands i.e. more than two coordinands. In such constructions with multiple coordinands, monosyndetic coordination occurs with the coordinator ədugə and’ with fewer coordinands. We then examine the coordinator ədugə in opposite. In this typology of clause combination, either the first or the last clause is in negative or in opposite meaning. In coordinate structures, Manipuri employs coordinators for a variety of functions.

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Ch. Yashawanta Singh, Ph.D.
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S. Indrakumar Singh, Ph.D. Candidate
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Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Imphal
Manipur
India
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