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BROKSKAT GRAMMAR
N.Ramaswami

kiseRga homo kRumpo kRumis unisu hua
         1            2            3                               4               

‘anybody could do this work’
         1              4           2          3         

mucok paRi giya:len
                                     1          2            3                                      

‘everyone went there’
         1            3          2       

The indefinite pronominal modifier ‘some’ has three forms viz., ki, ke:k and a:pe meaning ‘some’. Of these three indefinite pronouns, ke and ke:k are used count nouns and a:pe with mass nouns. Of the first two ki occurs with animate nouns and ke:k occurs with inanimate nouns. They follow the noun like the numerals.

mu ki  ‘some men’
tiga:yo ki  ‘some women’
va ki ‘some dogs’
pu:o ke:k ‘some flowers’
khazas ke:k ‘some fruits’
vya a:pe  ‘some water’

2.1.3.4. Interrogative Pronoun:
The interrogative forms available in this language are:

ye  ‘what’
ko ‘who’
kya:ne ‘where’
keRe  ‘when’
yeta ‘how’
ka:v ‘which’
yeRa ‘why’


mo cicuma ko yu:  
       1          2          3     4             

 ‘who will come with me?’
       3               4         2       1         

so keRe ut   
1       2     3      

‘when did he come?’
       2       3      1       3            


ti yeRa biyu:
    1      2            3          		 ‘why you are going?’
     2        1             3          
tisa ye Ra:siyu: 
  1    2             3           		 ‘what do you say?’
     2           1       3      
masa yeta Ra:siyu :s
   1       2             3              		  ‘how shall I speak?’
    2              1          3       
pho ko bel
     1      2     3         		  ‘who is he?’
  2      3    1     
tiRa mu ka: tik usu:
 1        2          3        4         		  ‘how many languages do you know?’
     3                         2              1        4        
ti ka:tik igo bel
 1           2      3      4       

 ‘how tall have you grown?’
    2      3                1            4          


2.1.3.5. Self-act:

When an act is performed by the subject on its own without being motivated or caused by other, the suffix so- is added to the subject. If there is an agentive suffix, it follows this suffix.

soso sa hamo phitasu:
   1            2               3           		  ‘he breaks it himself’
    1        3        2       1             
soso sa ya:spa thisu:
    1                 2                     		  ‘he plays himself’
    1      2              3         
soso Ruva:le
    1              2        		  ‘he weeps himself’
     1          2             1            
soso Ruva:le
    1            2            		  ‘he comes himself’
     1        2              1           
laquksuson huksi busu:
        1              2            		  ‘the plant gets buried (itself)’
     1                 2               
oRso lupisu:
    1               2      

 ‘the fire gets extinguished (itself)’
    1                        2                    

laquksuso bithiya:l
                  1                2               		  ‘the tree gets shaken (itself)’
               1                   2                         

       

                                       

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