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Nominal Ellipsis in Manipuri

Huiningshumbam Surchandra Singh, Research Scholar
Prof. P. Madhubala, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics, Manipur University

Abstract

The present paper makes an attempt to explore the extra-linguistic features of some of the modifiers that can function as head in an elliptical nominal group. Those modifiers that are to be studied here are numeratives, adjectives, possessives and quantifiers and they are to be analysed at the discourse level. In Manipuri nominal ellipsis, an elliptical nominal form is formed by omitting the head noun and making the modifiers as head of that group. The modifiers that become the head of that elliptical nominal group have taken the suffixes having been attached to the head of the non-elliptical nominal group. The elliptical nominal group presupposes the noun that is in the preceding part of the discourse and an anaphoric relation is made between them. The modifiers working at the phrase level are now playing a great role at the discourse level also. As the modifiers have the capacity to become the head of an elliptical nominal group, they become an important part of Manipuri discourse. In such way, nominal ellipsis has become a vital cohesive device used to make a Manipuri cohesive discourse. Because of having such role to make a cohesive discourse, nominal ellipsis has become an inevitable part of the analysis of Manipuri discourse.

Keywords: Manipuri, numeratives, adjectives, possessives, quantifiers, ellipsis.

Introduction

The term ‘ellipsis’ means ‘substitution by zero’. The starting point of the study of ellipsis can be the familiar notion that it is ‘something left unsaid’. There is no implication here that what is unsaid is not understood; on the contrary, ‘unsaid’ implies ‘ but understood nevertheless’, and another way of referring to ellipsis is in fact as something understood where ‘understood’ is used in the special sense of ‘going without saying’( Halliday and Hasan, 1976). Where there is ellipsis, there will be a presupposition, in the structure, that something is to be supplied, or understood. Here the nominal ellipsis which is frequently used in the Manipuri discourse is studied as follows.

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Huiningshumbam Surchandra Singh
Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Imphal
Manipur
India
boinao86@gmail.com


Prof. P. Madhubala, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Imphal
Manipur
India
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