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Lexical Reduplication in Literary Works of
Ashangbam Minaketan

Naorem Jiban Singh, Ph.D. Student
P. Madhubala, Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper attempts to discuss the lexical reduplication only. Also, the focus is more on word reduplication in the literary works of Ashangbam Minaketan, a prominent writer of the modern Manipuri literature. The paper deals with word reduplication and its types as complete, partial and discontinuous word reduplication. Complete word reduplication can be further subdivided into the class maintaining type and the class changing type.

1. Introduction

Reduplication is the repetition of all or a part of a lexical item carrying a semantic meaning. Reduplication refers to a word formation process that repeats all or part of a word or phrase (Paul de Lancy, 2006). There are two types of reduplication namely, morphological reduplication and lexical reduplication.

Morphological reduplication refers to the minimally meaningful and segmentally indivisible morphemes which are constituted of iterated syllables (Abbi, 1992). Thus, it comprises of base and iterated part together to form a single morpheme.

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Naorem Jiban Singh, Research Student
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Canchipur
Imphal 795003
Manipur
India
jibanmu2013@gmail.com

P. Madhubala Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Canchipur
Imphal 795003
Manipur
India
pmadhubala@gmail.com

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