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2.6.7. The Indefinte Pronoun
 
         The Indefinite pronouns in Angami are
 
        (1) khpur ‘anybody ; everybody’ This is composed of , the Human marker and khpur
          This may also be used as a generic pronoun, the equivalent of the English ‘one’ in sentences like ‘one should behave oneself’
 
         (2) humi ‘somebody’ composed of hu ‘some’ and (th)- mi ‘man’
 
         (3) mhhu and mhpu ‘something’ composed respectively of mh ‘thing’, hu ‘some’ and mh ‘thing’, pu ‘one’
 
         (4) mhkhpur ‘anything’ composed of mh ‘thing’ and khpur
 
3.0.0. Case Relationships
 

         Case is a grammatical category, which expresses the syntacticosemantic relations between a N(oun) and the Predicate. Angami express ten such relations (excluding of course the genitive) :

 
         (1) Sbujective, which has various semantic roles,
         (2) Executor,
         (3) Communicative,
         (4) Unmarked Obejctive,
         (5) Locative,
         (6) source,
         (7) Goal,
         (8) Instrumental,
         (9) Benefactive and
         (10) Associative.
 
         The Executor, communicative and unmarked object case roles express what syntactically is the D(irect) O(bject) or in traditional terms the accusative case.
 
         In Angami, the morphemes that mark these relations are postpositions except for which mark the subject in its stylistic form. Only the First person and second person singular pronouns and n respectively undergo morphophonemic changes when case markers are added as mentioned in the section on Pronouns. The case markers will, nevertheless, be considered postpositions on the basis of (a) the absence of morphophonemic alternation
 
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The only reason why the semantic roles of the subject have been conflated under one case whereas the three underlying roles of the DO have been given ‘emic’ status is that case roles identified here may not be exhaustive and one can possibly talk about the semantic roles of the subject ad infinitum with no corroborating morphological or syntactic evidence.
 
          with other NP’s, (b) the phonetic criterion of a potential morphemic juncture between the marker and the NP, and (c) orthographic conventions: all case markers are written with space between the NP and the marker except for which is written with a hyphen in between.
 
3.1.0 The subjective relates the subject of the sentence to the predicate phrase and is generally unmarked. It has an overt marker as an output of a stylistic transformation of primary topicalization as in
 
Pre-stylistic
 
          (1) pu punb ‘sheis happy
          (2) rvz thmi kv pu ‘Ravizo(is) a goodman
          (3) z pltny ‘Myname(is) Petetunuo
 
(Post) stylistic
 
          (1a) pu pun b ‘She is happy’
          (2a) rvz thmi kv pu ‘Ravizo (is) a good man’
          (3a) z pltny ‘My name (is) Peletunuo’
 
3.1.1 The suface subject, then, is not obligatorily marked. The discourse definition of ‘the thing being talked about’ or ‘the topic of discourse’ will identify the subject.
 
3.1.2. The surface subject may have the following case or semantic functions.
 
3.1.3. The Agent(ive) is the volitional, animate instigator or doer of the action identified by the verb. This typically is the subject of action verbs and action-process verbs (For a definition of action verbs and action-process verbs, see 6.1.0)
 
        (4) (a) pu  ble  dkhrw ‘HekilledBelho
             (b) tf  pu  mkw ‘The dogbithim
        (5) (a) w  khti  tsy ‘Weeatrice
             (b) d pu z ks ‘Imethimyeasterday
             (c) pu thi  h ‘Shesaw metoday
             (d) k tdi ili b ‘Theyare learningAngami
             (e) lsdpu ktss ‘Isent abook
 

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