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4.2.1
Kernal Sentences manifesting inversion of NPs
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.
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/.
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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