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Volume 14:1 January 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Coordinative Suffixes in Manipuri

Sagolsem Indrakumar Singh, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

The present paper deals with the well-known and important aspects of coordinators used in bisyndetic type of syndetic coordination. The paper studies the syntactic and pragmatic functions of coordinative suffixes. Syntactically coordinative suffixes appear as suffixes but pragmatically they function as a lexical coordinator. The use of suffix coordinators in coordinate structures is very frequent more prominently in spoken than the written form. The paper also presents the structural and functional analysis of the coordinative suffixes in Manipuri

Introduction

Suffixes which are employed in coordinate structures functioning to conjoin the conjuncts in Manipuri are identified as -ne, -g_~-k_, and -su. They conjoin the conjuncts or coordinands which are grammatically equal in rank or status, and hence, they are coordinative suffixes. These coordinative suffixes carry the functional meaning of _m_su_/_m_di ‘and’. Syntactically they appear as suffixes but pragmatically they function as lexical coordinator _m_su_/_m_di ‘and’ whose literal or underlying meaning is ‘and’.

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Sagolsem Indrakumar Singh, M.A., LL.B., Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Imphal 795003
Manipur
India
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