Bengali Upasarga: A morphological analysis

Authors

  • Khondokar Khairunnahar Lecturer, Dept. of Linguistics, Dhaka University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/dujl.v1i2.3722

Keywords:

prefix, bound morpheme, class changing, class maintaining, morphology

Abstract

In Bengali an upasarga- a special kind of prefx- is a vibrant element which is determined as bound morpheme in a morphological consideration. If words are analyzed structurally, the result is outnumbered words, which are mainly constructed by such a prefix. More specifically, most of the terms in Bengali are created with the help of these prefixes. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to provide a structural interpretation of such bound morphemes enriching the words in Bengali.

Key words: prefix, bound morpheme, class changing, class maintaining, morphology

DOI: 10.3329/dujl.v1i2.3722

The Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics: Vol.1 No.2 August, 2008 Page: 157-168  

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Khairunnahar, K. (2009). Bengali Upasarga: A morphological analysis. Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics, 1(2), 157–168. https://doi.org/10.3329/dujl.v1i2.3722

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2008)

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