[Lexicog] Manipuri/Meithei_Dict

[Surmangol Sharma]

Dear All,

I work on Manipuri dictionary. The language is agglutinative and verbs are bound morphemes. Citation verbs are suffixed with -pa/ba 'Nominalizer'. Some other Manipuri Lexicographers while giving the grammatical category of the verbs use the term as verbal noun (vn). This might be due to the fact that deverbal nouns take the same form, for example:

(a) cá-bə vn eat
(b) tombə cá-bə pam-mi 'Tomba likes eating'

In this regard, my opinion is -- isn't it possible to give the grammatical category of (a) above as verb (v) rather than vn.

suggestions, comments are highly appreciated.

regards
surmangol

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Hanjabam Surmangol Sharma

Department of Linguistics

Manipur University, Canchipur

Imphal 795 003 MANIPUR
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