LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:11 November 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Sentential Complementation in Manipuri

Dhanapati Shougrakpam, Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper discusses the behaviour of sentential complementation in Manipuri within the structural analysis framework.

It can be inferred from the present study that sentential complement is a major constituent of a sentence or clause structure and is associated with completing the action of the verb. Sentential complements can also be discussed as verb modifying phrases.

Introduction

Complementation is a grammatical process by which sentences are made to function as the arguments of higher (matrix sentence); the use of nominalized clauses in constructions where they function as noun-phrase complements of a matrix verb.

The only nominalizing strategy in Manipuri is the p? ~ b? suffix.
- ‘p?’ occurs after voiceless consonants.
- ‘b?’ occurs after vowels and voiced consonants.

All the action, process and stative roots are bound and known as verbal roots. They can be nominalized by suffixation of the NZR - p?~b?, as in the following two ways (i) addition to the direct verbal roots and (ii) after other suffix.

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Dhanapati Shougrakpam, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University
Canchipur
Imphal – 795 003
Manipur
India
dippi1117@yahoo.co.in
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