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- Title
Nominal Ellipsis in Manipuri.
- Authors
Singh, Huiningshumbam Surchandra; Madhubala, P.
- Abstract
The present paper makes an attempt to explore the extra-linguistic features of some of the modifiers that can function as head in an elliptical nominal group. Those modifiers that are to be studied here are numeratives, adjectives, possessives and quantifiers and they are to be analyzed at the discourse level. In Manipuri nominal ellipsis, an elliptical nominal form is formed by omitting the head noun and making the modifiers as head of that group. The modifiers that become the head of that elliptical nominal group have taken the suffixes having been attached to the head of the non-elliptical nominal group. The elliptical nominal group presupposes the noun that is in the preceding part of the discourse and an anaphoric relation is made between them. The modifiers working at the phrase level are now playing a great role at the discourse level also. As the modifiers have the capacity to become the head of an elliptical nominal group, they become an important part of Manipuri discourse. In such way, nominal ellipsis has become a vital cohesive device used to make a Manipuri cohesive discourse. Because of having such role to make a cohesive discourse, nominal ellipsis has become an inevitable part of the analysis of Manipuri discourse.
- Subjects
ELLIPSIS (Grammar); MANIPURI language; ADJECTIVES (Grammar); POSSESSIVES (Grammar); QUANTIFIERS (Linguistics)
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 1, p265
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article