Semantic Extension and Recreation in Manipuri

Abstract

The present study contributes to the study of Lexical Development in Semantic Extension and Recreation in Manipuri, a Tibeto-Burman language. Semantic Extension is the lexical change of using words of ordinary meaning in the ordinary language in an added technical sense. Semantic Recreation is a newly word, technical term crafted by the committees, are stored away in glossaries and manuals and are unused actively but for a small percentage of them being used in institutional textbooks. This practice may be both process of replacement and reduction. It is to implement a perceived notion of precision over riding the fact that words have their meaning by convention. The new recreated words seem to be motivated only by a feel of newness. These words will enrich Manipuri vocabulary.