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Volume 13:5 May 2013
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Nominal Morphology in Inpui

Waikhom Pinky Devi, Ph.D.

1. Introduction

The aim of this paper is to study Nominal morphology in Inpui, a Tibeto-Burman language of the Naga-Bodo subgroup of Naga group (Grierson LSI, vol III part II, 1903). The term Inpui refers to ‘In’ means ‘house’ and ‘Pui’ means ‘big or large’. So the literal meaning of the name of the language is ‘Big House’. It has a population of about 11,000 approximately which is mainly concentrated in 15 villages of Manipur, i.e., 9 in Tamenglong district and 3 each in Imphal district and Senapati district. The present analysis is based on the data collected from Haochong village of Tamenglong district which is situated in the northern side of National highway 37 (Noney) at a distance of 37 kms from Imphal city. Zeme, Liangmei and Rongmei tribe neighbours with Inpui tribe. The present paper attempts to show that nominal morphology plays an important role in the morphological structure of Inpui. First a description of the noun in this language is presented followed by a brief discussion of nominal classes i.e. person, number, gender and case which constitute the nominal morphology in the language.

2. Typological Characteristics

Inpui is a language having SOV structure. This language is an agglutinative language. The process of suffixation is very rich. It has post verbal negative. The direct object precedes the indirect object in this language. Adjective and demonstrative precedes the noun while determiner and numeral follows the noun; the order of Adverb precedes the verb. Like many other Tibeto-Burman language, Inpui is also a postpositional language. It is a tonal language.

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Waikhom Pinky Devi, Ph.D. Research Scholar
C/O Dr. Pauthang Haokip
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Department Of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar-788011
Assam
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