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Volume 14:5 May 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Compound Verbs in Manipuri

Mayengbam Bidyarani Devi, Ph.D.

Abstract

The present paper contributes to the study of the compound verbs in Manipuri. It analyses the morphological and semantic features of the compound verbs in Manipuri. In Manipuri, compound verbs are formed by a combination of two or more roots. Compound verbs are very limited in number. They are formed by the suffixation of -thok ‘out’ and –ni? ‘wish or want’ with a verbal root and they must end with the aspect markers. Another formation of compound verb can be made by a combination of three roots with aspect markers.

Keywords

Morphological, semantic, aspect markers and suffixation.

1. Introduction

A compound verb or complex predicate is a multiword compound that acts as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector, which carries inflections, indicating tense, mood or aspect, but it provides only the shades of meaning (Abraham, 2009).

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Mayengbam Bidyarani Devi, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Canchipur – 795003
Imphal
Manipur
India
bidyaranimayengbam5@gmail.com
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