It
is also common in Hmar to form compound sentences
by conjoining two clauses with the help of disjunctive
/ann:leh/
‘or’. In such cases the semantic contents of one
clause stand in exclusion of the other.
From
what has gone before it is very clear that Hmar Syntax
is much flexible. Word order plays no role. NPs in both
the subject slot and the object slot enjoy much freedom
of occurrence, although most preferred position of an
object in a sentence is the beginning of the sentence.
It is interesting, as cited before, to note that a pronoun
representing the subject noun reoccurs preferably before
the auxiliary in the VP; in respect subject pronouns (1st
or 2nd person) its occurrence is optional. In many cases
the main verb and the auxiliaries contract. In complex
sentences the subordinate clause normally precedes the
main clause. Similarly embedded clause also precedes the
matrix clause. In compound sentences the clause ordering
follows the natural sequence of happenings or references
contained in the constituent clause.
Transformation
is also relatively simple. Interrogative and negative
sentences are constructed simply by addition of some interrogative
and negative elements respectively at the end of sentences.
Similarly, imperative sentences are also generated by
adding some simple. Passive is realised only by fronting
the object in the active sentence and by modulating the
intonation; the verb forms do not undergo any change.
Thus, it appears that the overall syntactic pattern in
Hmar is very straight forward and non-native speakers
of Hmar will not face any difficulty in mastering the
syntactic structure of the language.
:leh/
‘or’. In such cases the semantic contents of one
clause stand in exclusion of the other.
r
h/
:lèh
dà:kt
h/
