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7.1.4. The Genitive : The
genitive, as pointed out above, is an attribute. It is not
morphologically marked in Ao except in the case of singular
personal pronouns. The genitive forms of these pronouns have
already been given in section 2.4. It may be recalled here that
the third person singular has special oblique forms only when
the following head noun is non-human. The genitive is therefore
defined by the place of occurence of a noun in relation to the
head noun. One of the relations of a noun that precedes the head
noun is genitive indicating possessor relationship. |
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k
kí
‘my house’ |
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my house |
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m
kakàt
‘your (sg) book’ |
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your book |
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pá
áz
‘his dog’ |
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his
dog |
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lá tepu
‘her father’ |
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her father |
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nisó kí
‘man’s house’ |
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man house |
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áz tepen
‘dog’s tail’ |
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dog tail |
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uz tesep
‘bird’s nest’ |
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bird nest |
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| 7.1.5.
Co-ordinate Noun Phrase : |
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Co-ordinate noun phrases are formed by joining two or more nouns
or noun phrases with the conjuctive or the disjunctive
particles. The conjunctive particle is /ase/.
This is added before the last of the noun enumerated. |
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pá
asé
lá
‘he and she’ |
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he
and
she |
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ipá
nisó
ya
asé
pá
kí ‘this man and his house’ |
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this
person
(dem) and
his house |
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| amenlá, naolá,
benda asé
nokten kohima-yi awó |
Amenla Narola Bendang and Nokden Kohima-to going
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‘Amenla, Narola, Bendang and Nokden are going to Kohima’
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disjunctive particle is /mesha/.
This is also added before the last of the nouns enumerated. |
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| ká mesa
aná ‘one or two’ |
| one or two |
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| tepu mesa
capasu ‘father or son’ |
| father or son |
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| pá, lá mesa
ná ‘he, she or you (sg.)’ |
| he, she or you |
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| tenak,
tekolak mesa
teka ‘eye, head or hand’ |
| eye head or
hand |
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Verb Phrase : |
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The predicate phrase in Ao may be a verb phrase, a noun phrase
or an adjective phrase. The internal composition of noun phrases
in the predicate phrase is the same as noun phrases elsewhere.
The verb phrase consists of a verb and certain other
constituents, which precede the verb. The constituents which
precede the verbs are the case noun phrase except the genitive,
nominative and vocative, the adverb and the infinitive. |
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