Download Hmar Book --Select Grammar Book-- ABJUHMARIA Grammar ANGAMI Grammar AO Grammar APATANI Grammar BHUMIJ Grammar BROKSKAT GOJRI Grammar HMAR Grammar KARBI Grammar KOKBOROK Grammar KUVI Grammar LOTHA Grammar MAO NAGA Grammar MISH Grammar MISING Grammar MUNDARI Grammar NAGA PIDGIN Grammar PURKI Grammar SEMA Grammar Theory of Binding Grammar URALI Grammar A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF YERAVA   /hú    ìnhm    n    rh/ (come) (quick)    (not)    (+ imperative) ‘don’t come quickly’ An adverb of place also prefers to occur at the beginning of the sentence but it could be shifted elsewhere also. In imperative sentences the subject NPs as usual get deleted and the sentences look like VPs only. Therefore no tree-diagram is needed. /láihí    hú      rh/ (here)  (come)  (+ imperative) ‘come here’ or /hú rh láihín/ ‘come here’ /sn   káfè     táh/ (there)  (I)(go)  (+ past) ‘I went there’ or /ká    fè    tàh   sn/ ‘I went there’ A sentence containing fully developed NPs and VPs will appear as under: 4.2.3 Structure of Embedded Sentence Hmar also manifests sentences structures where one sentence is inset in the other. But the realisation of such structures is very simple. The clause (or, sentence) which is embedded precedes the main clause (of, sentence). The following examples could be seen: (come) (we) (+ fut) (say) (they) (say) ‘they say (that) I will come’ zíek        kà    tìh         tì       ká     hrìl (write)   (I)   (+ fut)   (say)   (I)   (say) ‘I say (that) I will write’ The clause /hú kàn tìh/ in the first example is embedded in the main clause /án hrìl/ ; similarly, the clause /zíek kà tìh/ in the second example is embedded in the main clause /ká hrìl/. /ti/ also   Previous   |   Next Top

Hmar Index Page   FeedBack | Contact Us | Home