|
| |
|
wa
|
p rsũ
|
Ut
|
thi
|
‘She
|
was
|
there
|
day-before-
|
yesterday’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
|
2
|
|
| |
|
hũ
|
grã
|
dũ
|
p  k
|
mU ũgo
|
‘I
|
shall
|
return
|
tomorrow
|
from
|
the
|
village’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
|
5 |
4 |
3
|
|
2 |
|
| |
|
m
|
tũ
|
p lã
|
kde
|
ní
|
dekhyo
|
‘I
|
never
|
saw
|
you
|
before’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
1 |
4-5 |
6 |
2 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
There are some words which are primarily adverbs and these are not
derived from any other word categories. These adverbs may be of various
types such as place, temporal, manner etc. Examples are :
|
|
Place :
|
|
heţh
|
‘below’
|
|
bUn
|
‘down’
|
|
Uppr
|
‘on’
|
|
|
Temporal :
|
|
hU
|
‘now’
|
|
nmasyã
|
‘evening time’
|
|
j
|
‘today’
|
|
kl
‘yesterday’
|
|
|
pk
‘tomorrow’
|
|
|
p rsũ
|
‘day before yesterday, day
|
|
after tomorrow’
|
|
mešã
|
‘always’
|
|
|
Manner :
|
|
jrur
|
‘surely’
|
|
r
|
‘more’
|
|
|
|
|
Most of the adverbs are derived from other word categories. A set of
adverbs are formed from the pronominal bases such as demonstrative,
relative and interrogative pronouns and these can be tabulated on the
chart follows :
|
|
Proximate
|
|
Remote
|
Interrogative
|
Relative
|
|
|
Place
|
It |
Ut |
kIt |
jI |
|
‘here’
|
‘there’
|
‘where’
|
‘where’
|
|
Direction
|
Ingã
|
Ungã
|
kIngã
|
jIngã |
|
‘this side’
|
‘that side’ |
which |
‘which |
|
|
|
side’ |
side’ |
|
Time
|
|
td |
kd |
jd
|
|
|
‘then’
|
‘when’ |
‘when’ |
|
Manner
|
Is rá
|
Us rá
|
kIs rá
|
jIs rá |
|
‘like this,
|
‘like that,
|
‘in what |
‘in what |
|
in this
|
in that |
manner’ |
manner’ |
|
manner’
|
manner’
|
|
|
|
Purpostive
|
|
|
kyũ
|
|
|
|
|
‘why’ |
|
|
|
From the above table we can segment/l-, U-, k-, j-/ as the alternant
for the various pronominal bases such as proximate, remote, interrogative
and relative and to these adverbial derivative suffixes /-t, -ngã,
-d/ etc. are
|
j
