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Kernal
Sentences manifesting inversion of NPs |
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When
there is an object NP in the VP in the predicate slot,
the object NP generally, in the surface realisation,
gets out of the VP and precedes the subject NP allowing
thereby bye subject NP and VP less the NP to occur in
sequence. The following examples could be seen. |
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This,
of course, violates general PS rules established by
western linguistics. Here subject NP and VP less object
NP maintain such close immediate constituency that the
subject NP could even occur in between the VP splitting
the main verb and the auxiliary. |
For
example : |
For
past tense formation with /tàh/
the pronoun /kà/ precedes /én/. |
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Similarly,
any NP in the VP in the predicate slot representing
allative or ablative case also tends to precede the
subject NP allowing thereby the subject NP to form immediate
constituent of the VP. |
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