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The Study of Distributed Morphology with Reference to the Mishing Verbal Inflection

Krishna Hazarika, PhD Research Scholar

Abstract

The present research paper is a comprehensive analysis of Mishing verb inflection and its implementation in a DM-based Morphological Analyser. In this paper we try to sketch a descriptive idea of Mishing verbal inflection within the framework of Distributed morphology. For this we basically discuss the categories that are associated with the verb stems and the verb suffixes. Here, we are also put an emphasis to see how we can analyse a language in detailed including its producing morpheme. With this how does the framework of distributed morphology allows for morphology to work in tandem with syntax to analyse will draw processes of the DM-based Mishing Morphological Analyser. After all description this paper figure out the main postulating purpose behind this compositional study.

Keywords: Mishing language, Distributional morphology, Verbal inflection, Post syntactic morphological operations.

1.0 Introduction

This paper presents an analysis of verbal inflection in the Mishing language within the framework of Distributed Morphology. Mishing is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Mishing people spatially distributed in upper Assam, mostly in the districts of Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Sivsagar, Golaghat, Tinisukia, Dibrugarh. A few villages of the Mishing people are also in Arunachal Pradesh. In Assam there are nearly 5,87,310 speakers of Mishing. The basic word order of Mishing is SOV.

1.1 1.1 Distributed Morphology

Distributed Morphology (DM) is a theoretical framework that emerged in the early 1990s. The name is introduced in Halle and Marantz (1993, 1994), with important precursors including Halle (1990), Bonet (1991), Noyer (1997), and Pesetsky (1995). At a broad level, DM represents a set of hypotheses about the interaction among components of grammar: Morphology, in DM, is a part of the mapping from the output of a syntactic derivation to the input to the phonology.

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Krishna Hazarika, PhD Research Scholar
Centre for Linguistics
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Krishnaahazarika47@gmail.com
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