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   kago m mi membne ‘Kago killed him’ Kago he acc. kill-p.t.       m kago lo mekobine ‘he was killed by Kago’ he Kago-inst. kill-pas-p.t.       nym h aki mi tade lo bikone ‘the woman was given a dog by Tadde’ woman det. dog acc. Tadde inst. give-p.t.       san tade lo ilyo la pako bne ‘the tree was cut by Tadde with dao’ tree Tadde inst. dao. inst. cat pas.-p.t.   Reported Speech In reported speech, the statement, etc., are quoted as such and the quotative ‘hila’ is added to the end of the statement followed by the comment of the reporter. See the illustrations below : o reru hokla child det. tell-nom.-det. I Reru abl. tdu" come-exist I am coming from Reru’ the boy replied’ hsrepa nymi lunh "nmpa aku?" again woman ask-non.-det. why come-asp. "why did you come" she asked again’   The indirect speech is formed by adding ‘yuke’ to the end of the direct speech that is converted to indirect speech. mm yuke he do report ‘he said that he has done’       mlu yuke he say report ‘he said that he has said’       m mki yuke   ‘he said that he has demonstrated’ he do-be.v. report     Previous Next top

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