2. In the derivation of passive sentence from the active,
the following changes take place.
4.The object NP moves to the position of
object NP.
5.The object NP moves to the position of
subject NP
6. the simple past tense verb
changes into past participle.
7.
a?e
hake-te
darua
ma?-ked - a - ?e
he
axe-case
tree
cut-past- cop-PT
‘He cut the tree with axe’
8.
a?e
akua
diri-te
koe-ked - a - ?e
he
nut
stone-case
break-past- cop-PT
‘He broke the nut with stone’
9.
a?e
daru-te
a
bai - ked - a - ?e
he
tree-case
house
build-past-cop-PT
‘He built the house with wood’
The structure of the above sentences and passive
sentences are to some extent same, except the presence of past participle
verb in passive sentences and the presence of object NP in the above
sentences. The structure of the simple sentences with instrumental case may
be as this :
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3. There are passive sentences without the - te phrase, ie.,
the agentive phrase. The agent is interpreted as the indefinite pronoun
‘someone’. This is called truncated passive and it may be illustrated later.
4. The morphemes o ‘to be’ horwa
‘seem’ occur with ‘seem’ kind of sentences. o ‘to be’ occurs both in the
active and passive sentences.
There are two morphemes namely gireo and rereo ‘though’
in this language. Though, they mean the same, gireo is used in the active
sentenceand rereo is used in the passive sentence.
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