Download Apatani Book --Select Grammar Book-- ABJUHMARIA 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 MISH Grammar MISING Grammar MUNDARI Grammar NAGA PIDGIN Grammar PURKI Grammar SEMA Grammar Theory of Binding Grammar URALI Grammar A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA   m imine he sleep-p.t. ‘he slept’       aki píne dog bark-p.t. ‘the dog barked’       m ka aba m mi gabne he gen. father he acc. scold-p.t. ‘his father scolded him’       ka anu nmi s dore mombt my brother I-dat. cow one send-p.t. ‘younger brother sent me a cow.       kago more ho sne ‘Kago died in the forest’ Kago forest loc. die-p.t.       yalyo turla ho   tbne Yalyo mug loc. beer pour-p.t. ‘Yalyo poured beer in the mug’       pta san hao ho dudu bird tree above loc. sit-exist ‘birds are sitting on the tree’       m san mi yaxu lo tbne he tree acc. axe inst. cut-p.t. ‘he cut the tree with an axe’       m bije lo ude mbne he bamboo inst. house make-p.t. ‘he made the house with bamboo’       madu ude hok kago agiho imbone Madu house abl. Kago soc. go-p.t. ‘Madu left the house with Kago’       tade sani hok ahi purbne ‘Tadee plucked fruit from the tree’ Tadde tree abl. fruit pluck-p.t.   The case markers indicate the grammatical relations of the noun phrases in the sentence. So the order of elements in the verb phrase is free. When adverbs occur in a sentence, they precede the verb. m ano kamipa api dne ‘he ate rice very late’ he very late-adv. rice eat-p.t.       o anyi bajilyiyepa imidalyi ‘I will sleep until 2 O’clock’ I two hour-adv. sleep-fut.   Conjunction NP Conjunction : Conjunction may be either noun phrase conjunction or sentential conjunction. In the case of noun phrase conjunction, two or more nouns are conjoined to form a noun phrase. In Apatani, when there are only two nouns, the conjoined marker ‘nyi’ is added to both the nouns occurring in that noun phrase. nynnyi himenyi girl-conj. boy-conj. ‘boy and girl’       yalyonyi tadenyi Yalyo-conj. Tadde-conj. ‘Yalyo and Tadde’       alyinyi akinyi pig-conj. dog-conj. ‘pig and dog’       Previous Next top

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