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- Title
Compounding in Bodo.
- Authors
Brahma, Aleendra; Boro, Anil Kumar
- Abstract
Compounding is one of the major processes of the word formation in the Bodo language. It combines two or more words to form a linguistic element which is called compound. A compound has several characteristics in its spelling, stress, morphology, etc. Compounds are of four types on the basis of their semantic point of view, namely, endocentric, exocentric, copulative and appositional. Again, they can be sub-grouped into several different classes on the basis of structural point of view, namely, Noun-Noun, Adjective-Noun, Verb-Noun, Noun-Verb, Verb-Verb, Pronoun-Noun, etc. The compounds in Bodo are also sub-grouped into the same four classes from the semantic point of view; and, at least, into eleven subtypes from the structural point of view, namely, Pronoun-Noun Compound, Verb-Verb Compound, Noun-Noun Compound, Noun-Noun-Noun Compound, Noun-Verb Compound, Noun-Adjective Compound, Verb-Adjective Compound, Verb-Noun Compound, Noun-Onomatopoeia Compound, Noun-Noun-Verb Compound and Noun-Verb-Adverbial Suffix Compound. Of them, the first three structures are very much productive whereas the last two structures are very much rare. The Bodo language is usually left-branching (the modifiers come before the head) when it comes to noun phrases. But, right-branching is also found in Bodo. Worth-mentioning that, if we look at some traditionally used compounds such as hinazao gɯdan 'bride', hɯowa gɯdan 'bridegroom', gɔt[sup h]ɔ gɯɾlɯi 'baby', etc. right-branching is found to see as usual. Thus, in Bodo, compound nouns are often formed by left-hand heads.
- Subjects
COMPOUND words; BODO language; WORD formation (Grammar); LINGUISTICS; NOUNS; VERBS; ADJECTIVES (Grammar); MIMETIC words
- Publication
Language in India, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 2, p16
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article