| mInna
|
car |
k r |
 |
|
‘I
|
have
|
four
|
houses’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
|
1-4 |
2 |
3 |
|
|
(iii)
|
There is another type of has, have construction in which the deep
structure subject is realized as possessive adverbial formed by adding /ko €/
to the nominal oblique form and the object possessed which shows the
alienable possession occurs in the direct form agreeing with the verb
copula. Examples are : |
| N koє
N comp V cop
|
|
| |
|
mera
|
koє
|
do
|
kItab
|
|
|
‘I
|
have
|
two
|
books’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
1 |
2-5 |
3 |
4 |
|
| |
|
mera
|
koє
|
ek
|
m s
|
thi
|
|
‘I
|
had
|
one
|
buffalo’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
1 |
2-5 |
3 |
4 |
|
2. Intransitive Sentences
|
|
|
|
There are sentences which are formed with the intransitive verbs and
verb phrase of such sentences is always in agreement with the subject in
gender, number and person. Predicate may or may not have one or more
adverb phrase. Examples are :
|
|
kUtto
|
p k€
|
 |
|
‘Dog
|
barks’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
|
1 |
2-3 |
|
| |
|
wo
|
mera
|
d r
|
ayo
|
|
‘He
|
came
|
towards
|
me’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
|
| |
|
ger
|
|
|
|
‘The
|
girls
|
fall’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
|
|
1 |
2-3 |
|
| |
|
|
|
3. Simple Transitive Sentences
|
|
|
|
These sentences are formed by transitive verbs which take a single
object. The noun phrase functioning as object can occur with or without /na/
postposition when the verb is non perfective and in that case the verb
agrees with the subject in gender, number and person whatever the case may
be. With these verbal forms usually the object when it is animate noun
occurs with /na/ and the others in the direct form. In case when the verb
is in perfective participle, the noun or noun phrase functioning as
subject takes /n€/
agentive postposition and the verb agrees with the gender and number of
the object which occur in direct form. (See also 3.3.1.2)
|
Examples are :
|
|
(i) Subject-verb agreement
|
|
hm
|
tm a
|
dekhã
|
|
|
‘We
|
see
|
you’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1 |
3-4 |
2 |
|
| |
|
gera
|
kà
|
kppẽga
|
|
‘Boys
|
will cut
|
the
|
grass’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
|
1 |
3 |
|
3 |
|
|
(ii) Object-verb agreement
|
|
m
|
wo
|
dekhyo
|
|
‘I
|
saw
|
him’
|
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
|
1 |
3 |
2 |
|
| |
|
bcca
|
n€ |
wo |
lo yo
|
|
‘The
|
child
|
searched
|
him’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
|
1-2 |
4 |
3 |
|
| |
|
gerã
|
n€
|
we
|
loya
|
|
‘The
|
boys
|
searched
|
them’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
|
1-2 |
4 |
3 |
|
| |
|
m
|
mcchi
|
pgi
|
|
‘I
|
caught
|
the
|
fish’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
|
1 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
| |
|
Us
|
n€
|
mcchĩ
|
pgĩ
|
|
‘He
|
caught
|
the
|
fish’
|
|
1
|
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1-2 |
4 |
|
3 |
|
