Download AO Grammar Book --Select Grammar Book-- ABUJHMARIA Grammar ANGAMI Grammar AO Grammar APATANI Grammar BHUMIJ Grammar BROKSKAT GOJRI Grammar HMAR Grammar KARBI Grammar KOKBOROK Grammar KUVI Grammar LOTHA Grammar MAO NAGA Grammar MISHMI Grammar MISING Grammar MUNDARI Grammar NAGA PIDGIN Grammar PURKI Grammar SEMA Grammar Theory of Binding Grammar URALI Grammar A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA     3. Adjectives        Adjectives do not have a marker. However, the degrees of comparison are marked morphologically on the adjectives by adding the sufixes /-pa/ and /-tipa/ to indicate the comparative and superlative degrees respectively. The class of adjectives can thus be defined on the basis of the addition of the comparison markers.                       talà                                ‘tall’                     talà-pa                            ‘taller’                     talà-tipa                          ‘tallest’      pá          k             tanui            talàpa       ‘he is taller than me’    he          me             than                taller    lá           n            tanui             tàcópa      ‘she is better than you (sg.)’    she         you           than                 better    India       nu           calcutta            imti            tu?lutipa                                        OR     India         nu            imti                 tu?lutipa     calcutta        ‘Calcutta is the biggest   India         in               city                biggest       calcutta        city in India’       Previous Next Top

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