LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 11 November 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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Conjunctive Verbs in Malayalam

Ravi Sankar S. Nair, Ph.D.

Conjunctive verbs (also referred to as copular verbs or existential verbs) in Malayalam are capable of functioning as the main verb, but are grammatically and semantically different from action verbs. They do not take an agent noun as their subject. The semantic role associated with the subjects of conjunctive verbs is that of experiencer . They denote a state of being and not an action.

Traditional grammars of Malayalam like Rajaraja Varma (1917), Gundert (1868), Mathen (1863) and Seshagiri Prabhu (1898) have discussed the morphological aspects and in a limited way, the syntactic aspects of aak and un?t?u, the two conjunctive verbs in Malyalam. Later grammarians like Asher (1968), Venugopala Panikkar (1980), Rajasekharan Nair (1990), Asher and Kumari (1997) and Prabhakara Variyar (1998) have analyzed different syntactic and semantic features of the conjunctive verbs of Malayalam. Ravi Sankar S Nair (2011) presents an elaborate analysis of the syntax and semantics of two conjunctive verbs.

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Ravi Sankar S Nair, Ph.D.
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