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Research paper thumbnail of Morphophonemic variation in the nominal morphology of Assamese

Himalayan linguistics, May 2, 2022

This paper seeks to analyse and describe the nature of morphophonemic variation in the nominal mo... more This paper seeks to analyse and describe the nature of morphophonemic variation in the nominal morphology of Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Assam. Previous discussions of morphophonemic variation in the language have focused on the phonological aspects of such variation (Goswami and Tamuli, 2003: 410-13). However, the present study seeks to examine the nature and range of phonological variations within morphemes triggered by nominal morphological processes such as (a) deictic inflections for relational nouns, (b) case inflections for nouns and pronouns and (c) nominal wordformation via derivation and compounding. Identifying the phonological and morphological factors behind the morphophonemic variation in nominal morphology will serve to uncover the patterned nature of the underlying regularities of a major area of Assamese grammar. Moreover, in seeking to align the morphophonemic variations with specific nominal morphological processes rather than treating them in intrinsic phonological terms, this study proposes to highlight the interdependent functioning of the levels of analysis. Such functioning is evident in instances of phonological variations within morphemes that serve to mark different grammatical functions in the language. In addition to such descriptive considerations, the range of variations and their associated morphological processes can also shed light on specific aspects of diachronic change when they are cross-linguistically compared with cognate languages. The study is based mainly on corpus data using the empirical methodology of corpus linguistics. The CIIL-Lancaster Assamese corpus has turned out to be a very important aspect of the information for observing different areas discussed here. Besides the empirical data, supplementary introspective data will also be used where necessary. As the Assamese language has different varieties and the morphophonemic and allomorphic variants differ in their shapes and functions in these varieties, so the data are taken from the Standard Colloquial Assamese (SCA) which is historically referred to the Sibsagar (ħibɔħaɡɔɹija) variety of the language.

Research paper thumbnail of A Linguistic Perspective of Assamese Language as Used on Facebook

Advances in IT Standards and Standardization Research

The chapter attempts to look at different themes and issues relating to the use of Assamese langu... more The chapter attempts to look at different themes and issues relating to the use of Assamese language on Facebook. This study examines the changes observed at different levels of linguistic analysis. The users have been seen making some changes at phonological level which is associated with the phonemes or sounds in Assamese. Modifications have also been observed regarding the use of sentence structure as well as phrase structure, and the matters related to these areas have been dealt with at a grammatical level. Since linguistic analysis covers a vast area, some specific domains are being dealt with in this chapter, especially from the areas of phonology, morphology, and syntax.

Research paper thumbnail of Conditional suffixes in Assamese: Structure and function

Himalayan Linguistics, 2020

The present paper is an attempt to analyze and discuss some important concepts relating to the co... more The present paper is an attempt to analyze and discuss some important concepts relating to the conditional conjunctions in Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Assam. This study explores the form, function and distribution of conditional conjunctions which are used to describe a condition. Conditional conjunctions enable non-finite forms to express conditionality and temporal circumstances. The study focuses on one important way of introducing the structure of condition in Assamese by suffixation to the verb root. The verb of the dependent clause of a conditional sentence carries the inflectional morpheme as a non-finite form, which is not fully inflected for tense and person. The non-finite forms which are used to indicate the function of conditional marker will be discussed. While discussing the function of conditional conjunction as part of sentence structure, the subject-verb agreement of the dependent clause and the temporal expression of the inflectional form will be examined. Most of the examples in this paper are taken from the author's own native speakers introspection, but some of the examples were first observed in The CIIL-Lancaster Assamese Corpus.

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Research paper thumbnail of An introduction to Assamese script: Reading and writing

Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Morphophonemic variation in the nominal morphology of Assamese

Himalayan linguistics, May 2, 2022

This paper seeks to analyse and describe the nature of morphophonemic variation in the nominal mo... more This paper seeks to analyse and describe the nature of morphophonemic variation in the nominal morphology of Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Assam. Previous discussions of morphophonemic variation in the language have focused on the phonological aspects of such variation (Goswami and Tamuli, 2003: 410-13). However, the present study seeks to examine the nature and range of phonological variations within morphemes triggered by nominal morphological processes such as (a) deictic inflections for relational nouns, (b) case inflections for nouns and pronouns and (c) nominal wordformation via derivation and compounding. Identifying the phonological and morphological factors behind the morphophonemic variation in nominal morphology will serve to uncover the patterned nature of the underlying regularities of a major area of Assamese grammar. Moreover, in seeking to align the morphophonemic variations with specific nominal morphological processes rather than treating them in intrinsic phonological terms, this study proposes to highlight the interdependent functioning of the levels of analysis. Such functioning is evident in instances of phonological variations within morphemes that serve to mark different grammatical functions in the language. In addition to such descriptive considerations, the range of variations and their associated morphological processes can also shed light on specific aspects of diachronic change when they are cross-linguistically compared with cognate languages. The study is based mainly on corpus data using the empirical methodology of corpus linguistics. The CIIL-Lancaster Assamese corpus has turned out to be a very important aspect of the information for observing different areas discussed here. Besides the empirical data, supplementary introspective data will also be used where necessary. As the Assamese language has different varieties and the morphophonemic and allomorphic variants differ in their shapes and functions in these varieties, so the data are taken from the Standard Colloquial Assamese (SCA) which is historically referred to the Sibsagar (ħibɔħaɡɔɹija) variety of the language.

Research paper thumbnail of A Linguistic Perspective of Assamese Language as Used on Facebook

Advances in IT Standards and Standardization Research

The chapter attempts to look at different themes and issues relating to the use of Assamese langu... more The chapter attempts to look at different themes and issues relating to the use of Assamese language on Facebook. This study examines the changes observed at different levels of linguistic analysis. The users have been seen making some changes at phonological level which is associated with the phonemes or sounds in Assamese. Modifications have also been observed regarding the use of sentence structure as well as phrase structure, and the matters related to these areas have been dealt with at a grammatical level. Since linguistic analysis covers a vast area, some specific domains are being dealt with in this chapter, especially from the areas of phonology, morphology, and syntax.

Research paper thumbnail of Conditional suffixes in Assamese: Structure and function

Himalayan Linguistics, 2020

The present paper is an attempt to analyze and discuss some important concepts relating to the co... more The present paper is an attempt to analyze and discuss some important concepts relating to the conditional conjunctions in Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Assam. This study explores the form, function and distribution of conditional conjunctions which are used to describe a condition. Conditional conjunctions enable non-finite forms to express conditionality and temporal circumstances. The study focuses on one important way of introducing the structure of condition in Assamese by suffixation to the verb root. The verb of the dependent clause of a conditional sentence carries the inflectional morpheme as a non-finite form, which is not fully inflected for tense and person. The non-finite forms which are used to indicate the function of conditional marker will be discussed. While discussing the function of conditional conjunction as part of sentence structure, the subject-verb agreement of the dependent clause and the temporal expression of the inflectional form will be examined. Most of the examples in this paper are taken from the author's own native speakers introspection, but some of the examples were first observed in The CIIL-Lancaster Assamese Corpus.

Research paper thumbnail of An introduction to Assamese script: Reading and writing

Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru, 2019