Abstract
A compound is a word (lexeme) that consists of more than one free morpheme. Compounding refers to the joining or combining of two or more words which has its own meanings which then function as a single word. In Manipuri, there is a widespread phenomenon of compound nouns formed with the used of emphatic markers and reduplicated modifiers.In compound nouns formed with emphatic markers, the emphatic markers appeareither in the initial or medial positions; the compound nouns thus formed shows a kind of completeness, extremeness or totality of the entity that is being involved. The compound nouns formed with reduplicated modifiers-describes the state or nature of the deverbal nouns they modify; describes the nature or character of a person; indicates a kind of feeling of slightness of the modifying words. The reduplicated modifiers can only precede the deverbal nouns that it modifies.
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