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6.11.3 l is an information-confirming interrogative particle, the instance in pu1 vr2 ty3 l4 ‘he will come, Won’t he?’ the speaker has heard from some one about his coming and just wants to confirm it.
 
Similarly,
 
          n1 tfts2 tsy3 l4                       ‘You1 eat3 dog meat2, don’t you?4’
 
where the speaker has heard about the listener’s eating dog meat but wants to confirm it.
But in,
          n1 tfts2 tsy3 m4                   ‘Do4 you1 eat3 dog meat2?4’
the speakers seeks fresh information.
 
6.11.4 In another kind of yes-or-no interrogation the interrogative particles for interrogative pronouns or other question words, g or are preceded immediately by the negative marker twice. This is the only situation where g and can occur without any interrogative pronoun in the sentence.
 
pu1 l2 vr3 ty4 m lh 5 ‘Will4 he1 come3 back2 or not?5’
n1 thrnlitit2 m m g3 ‘Are2 you1 married2 or not?3’
 
6.11.5 b or b is also an information-seeking interrogative particle like m.
 
n1 v2 m3 ‘Did2 you1 go ?3’
n1 v2 b3  
pu1 vr b2 b3 ‘Has2 he1 come2?3’
pu1 vr b2 m3  
 
6.11.6 di a free form occuring in the discourse-final position is used as a response-elicitor, roughly equivalent to the English tag question or to the English ‘is (not) that so?’
 
....n1 d2 vr3 di4 ‘You1 came3 yesterday2, didn’t you?4
 

or
....n1 h2 tshs2 di3 ‘You1 did3 this2, didn’t you?4

 

or

isn’t that so?4’
 
7.0 The Adverb
 
Adverbs in Angami are found in four classes:
 
(1) Adverbs which are derived from the verb by prefixing p- to the verb.
 
v ‘to be good’ pv ‘well’
u ‘to be bad’ pu ‘badly’
so ‘to be deep’ pso ‘deep(ly)’
‘to be early’ p ‘early’
ku ‘to be strong’ pku ‘strongly’
khr ‘to be down’ pkhr ‘down’
 
(2) Averbs which are conjuctive participal forms of verbs. d as mentioned in 6.7.0 is the conjuctive participial suffix. They may be sequential (i.e. adverbial precedes the main verb in temporal sequence : the last two examples below) or purely descriptive (the rest of the examples).
 
thpf ‘to be brave’ thpfd ‘having been brave or bravely’
r ‘to be costly’ rd ‘expensively’
myi ‘to be angry’ myid ‘cheaply’
nmyi ‘to be angry’ nmyid ‘angrily’
n ‘to be happy’ nd ‘happily’
sgshi ‘to be patient’ sgshid ‘patiently’
dv ‘to be clever’ dvd ‘cleverly’
z ‘to be silent’ zd ‘silently’
1 nkd2 h3   ‘I1 bent (iterative) and2 saw3’
pu1 ddzlid2 tyt3 ‘She1 got ready and2 went3’
 
(3) Verbal participles functioning as adjectives function as adverbs without formal change. They are very few in number.
 
kms ‘clean’ ‘cleanly; neatly’
kzv ‘beautiful’ ‘beautifully’
kmrh ‘smart’ ‘smartly’
kkr ‘different’ ‘differently; apart’
 
(4) Adverbs which are not morphologically marked but are lexical items which form a syntactic class modifying the verb.
 
This is numerically the largest class.
 
rl ‘slowly’ rkr ‘fast’
rb ‘alone’ mh ‘at once, soon’
mhkpu ‘sometimes’ s ‘always’
l ‘again’ thi ‘today’
cimli ‘often’ sd ‘tomorrow’
    d ‘yeasterday’
ci ‘now’ tkhr mts ‘monthly’
    tci kpr ‘yearly’
hs ‘surprisingly’ mci ‘certainly’
 
A few adverbs belong to more than one of the above mentioned classes.
 
, p ‘early’
ri,pri ‘in front’
 

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